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Fellow readers, what's the best book you've read for improving your critical thinking/rationality?


This may be overwhelming but can help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

While I am not there yet myself with most of the biases, it seems that memorizing the name of a bias once you understand it helps you spot it more often in the daily life. [Sorry I do not know which cognitive bias would that be! :-)]


Yeah, I wish I could find a good tool/site for quizzing myself on these.

Something that would give me a paragraph and ask me to name the bias present if any.


Anki has some decks like that: http://ankisrs.net/


Can you please point to the decks? I see only the software on that URL.


That would be nice indeed. Let me also know if you find something! :-) Thanks.


The user Illusion

The Commanding Self

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion


Just looked up these books at Amazon. They sound promising, but at least the first and the last ones do not seem to be related to rationality. Could you please provide more information on your learning from these books as related to rationality?

The first book also sounds a promising read on consciousness. I am keen on knowing your key learning on that too to help me prioritize. I'll definitely be reading it myself, but cannot read right away due to existing load.

Thanks.




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