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Split and Commit — LessWrong

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This is an essay describing a basic sanity-inducing mental movement that I use approximately ten times per week, and suspect other people would benefit from adopting (and regularly reminding each other to do). I've talked about it elsewhere, but until now it didn't have its own linkable reference post. P1: Things are often not what they seem. This can be because the seeming itself is broken, e.g. the progression that goes: "Well, here I am in 1700's America and it sure seems to me that these black folk are fundamentally intellectually and morally and spiritually inferior to white folk" or "Well, here I am in 1800's America and it sure seems to me that these women are constitutionally incapable of holding political office" or "Well, here I am in 1900's America and it sure seems to me that these gay men are an active threat to everyone's safety, including our women (somehow) and children" or "Well, here I am in 2000's America and it sure seems to me that ████ ██ ██████ ██ ████ █████████

x Split and Commit — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2021 Techniques Rationality Curated 218 Split and Commit by Duncan Sabien (Inactive) 21st Nov 2021 6 min read 35 218 This is an essay describing a basic sanity-inducing mental movement that I use approximately ten times per week, and suspect other people would benefit from adopting (and regularly reminding each other to do). I've talked about it elsewhere , but until now it didn't have its own linkable reference post. P1: Things are often not what they seem. This can be because the seeming itself is broken, e.g. the progression that goes: "Well,

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