Uploaded February 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Human thought has hundreds of hard-wired bugs. The Socratic Method gives us a fighting chance to overcome them.

-Links for the Curious-

Paper describing evidence & several implications of availability bias - http://people.umass.edu/biep540w/pdf/Tversky%20availability.pdf

Paper describing evidence & several implications of confirmation bias - landman-psychology.com/ConfirmationBias.pdf

Wikipedia's list of cognitive biases - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

THUNK episode 73 on mental rigor - youtube.com/watch?v=l3uDwNUVieQ

THUNK episode 64 on the argumentative theory of human reason - youtube.com/watch?v=Cduyyif7BVY