Julia Galef

“You know how when you try to solve a puzzle and someone tells you the answer, it's much more satisfying and it sticks with you more than if they just tell you the puzzle and then tell you the answer straight away.”

“I would expect that to change ingrained habits of thought and behavior, you need more longer term practice on real life issues, not on toy problems, you know, in a lab.”

“In practice, it's not helpful to think about there being one very best choice that you can know for certain, but you can, you know, With some careful reasoning and using some good heuristics or rules of thumb, you can sort of rule out some obviously bad choice…”

“To change your own mind, I mean, the first step I would say is just believing that that's a desirable thing to do, which many or most people don't really either would explicitly say is a bad thing to do, because changing your mind makes you kind of wishy-washy…”

“And so one of the questions we ask them in the admissions interview is why are you interested in coming? What are you hoping to get out of it? And sometimes, occasionally, we get someone who says, well, I want to, like, learn how to explain rationality to the …”

“When someone I dislike says something, I now sort of automatically, well, actually not all the time, but it, I sort of have an intuitive sense for when this would be a useful thing to do. I will automatically imagine that someone I like said the exact same thi…”

“If you become more attuned to the, to your emotional reactions they can just be important clues as to where you're, what are the blind spots you're creating for yourself, and where are they?”

“I personally feel kind of morally uncomfortable with changing people's minds without facts and evidence. So it's kind of a constraint on my ability to change people's minds that I have to work, that I force myself to work within. Essentially. And that doesn't …”