#8 Julia Galef: The Art of Changing Minds
Episode metadata
- Episode title:: 8 Julia Galef The Art of Changing Minds
- Show:: The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
- Owner / Host:: Farnam Street
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- Episode publish date:: 2016-02-20
Show notes
> On this episode of the Knowledge Project, I discuss rationality, changing minds (our own and others), filtering information, and a lot more with Julia Galef.>
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Episode AI notes
- Embrace imperfection and automate habits to save time and prevent hindering progress
- The power of concrete predictions in philosophy emphasizes clear thinking and testing beliefs with evidence
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[33:07] Developing Intuitive Habitual Responses
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✨ Summary
The development of habits is aimed at making actions automatic over time. One example is the intuitive response developed when someone disliked speaks; there is now an immediate consideration of how we would react if the same words came from someone we liked, thus avoiding unfair dismissal of their argument due to personal bias. By consciously practicing this, it has become a habitual, automatic response.
📚 Transcript
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Speaker 1
The goal with habits is that they become automatic over time. So there are a lot of things that i, i find myself automatically doing now. A like like when some one i dislike says something, i now sort of automatically, well, actually, not all the time, but i sort of have an intuitive sense for for when this would be a useful Thing to do. I will automatically imagine that some onei said the exact same thing, and i, i knowed, would my reaction be different. In other words, i was, i sort of unfairly dismissing this person's argument because i don't like them. That, you knotis that thiy, lock them out of your mind. Ray a, and that that was something i sort of started trying to do intentionally, and now it happens automatically.