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Re:Checklist of Rationality Habits by wdewind on Saturday January 03, 2015 @12:08PM (#8831234)
Read the list...

> I notice when my mind is arguing for a side (instead of evaluating which side to choose), and flag this as an error mode. (Recent example from Anna: Noticed myself explaining to myself why outsourcing my clothes shopping does make sense, rather than evaluating whether to do it.)

Re:Checklist of Rationality Habits by JadeNB on Saturday January 03, 2015 @12:10PM (#8831240)
> Read the list...

I did (although, as I noted, I think that part of being rational is critically creating your own criteria for rationality, rather than using someone else's). I also was not claiming that this was not on the list—but:

> I notice when my mind is arguing for a side (instead of evaluating which side to choose), and flag this as an error mode.

Although logically—well, in classical logic, anyway—every argument against something is an argument for its opposite, I think that there is nonetheless a meaningful difference between making a contrarian argument (as I do; it is an essentially negative process) and arguing for the opposite position (an essentially positive process).

Re:Checklist of Rationality Habits by scarmig on Saturday January 03, 2015 @12:30PM (#8831316)
Careful there, your constructivism is showing.