Julia Galef
8 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 20, 2016 by Julia Galef · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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Feb 20, 2016
Galef: Constrains persuasion attempts strictly to facts and evidence
“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 …”
Feb 20, 2016 positive
Feb 20, 2016
Galef: Practical decision-making requires ruling out bad choices rather than seeking perfection
“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…”
Feb 20, 2016 positive
Feb 20, 2016 positive
Feb 20, 2016 neutral
Galef: CFAR rejects workshop applicants who want to fix others' irrationality
“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 …”
Feb 20, 2016 positive
Galef: Test your bias by imagining a friend making the opposing argument
“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…”
Feb 20, 2016
Galef: Changing your mind requires gut-level acceptance of your own blind spots
“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…”