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Note: the author now disclaims this post, and asserts that his past self was insufficiently skilled in the art of rationality to "take the good and d…

x Dark Arts of Rationality — LessWrong Dark Arts Compartmentalization Rationality Frontpage 267 Dark Arts of Rationality by So8res 19th Jan 2014 22 min read 194 267 Note: the author now disclaims this post, and asserts that his past self was insufficiently skilled in the art of rationality to "take the good and discard the bad" even when you don't yet know how to justify it. You can, of course, get all the benefits described below, without once compromising your epistemics. Today, we're going to talk about Dark rationalist techniques: productivity tools which seem incoherent, mad, and downrigh

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