Costs of rationality

Becoming more epistemically rational can only guarantee one thing: what you believe will include more of the truth. Knowing that truth might help you achieve your goals, or cause you to become a pariah. Be sure that you really want to know the truth before you commit to finding it; otherwise, you may flinch from it.

See also

• Valley of bad rationality
• Debiasing, Dangerous knowledge
• Bounded rationality
• Rationality, Truth

Blog posts

• Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)
• The Costs of Rationality by Robin Hanson
• Debiasing as Non-Self-Destruction
• How Much Thought by jimrandomh
• Theism, Wednesday, and Not Being Adopted by Alicorn
• Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)

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