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Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points — LessWrong

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A few years back, my great-grandmother died, in her nineties, after a long, slow, and cruel disintegration. I never knew her as a person, but in my d…

x Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points — LessWrong Against Rationalization Motivated Reasoning Noticing Frontpage 210 Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points by Eliezer Yudkowsky 5th Oct 2007 5 min read 216 210 A few years back, my great-grandmother died, in her nineties, after a long, slow, and cruel disintegration. I never knew her as a person, but in my distant childhood, she cooked for her family; I remember her gefilte fish, and her face, and that she was kind to me. At her funeral, my grand-uncle, who had taken care of her for years, spoke. He said, choking back tears, that God had ca

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