Self-awareness – knowing what you believe and why

In my self-awareness posts I write about our brains as seen through the lenses of evolutionary and social psychology, neuroscience, and beyond. Only by understanding ourselves can we improve ourselves. Worldviews are a useful tool here for mapping out our beliefs, and then critiquing them and improving them.

Some specific topics covered are: evolutionary & social psychology, neuroscience, biases, heuristics, clarity, values, history, culture, worldviews, beliefs

Do You Generalize from One Example?

Self-awareness

I’m writing a series that highlights key material from LessWrong.com. This post is based on Generalizing From One Example by Yvain. “Everyone generalizes from one example. At least, I do.” –Vlad Taltos (Issola, Steven Brust) Have you ever been confused by someone’s personal preference for having things spotlessly clean? How about filthy and disorganized? We […]

Keep reading →

Beware of Other-Optimising

Self-awareness

I’m writing a series that highlights key material from LessWrong.com. This post is based on Beware of Other-Optimizing by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Ever had an anti-procrastination trick that worked perfectly for you? Ever had that same trick fail miserably for a friend? Different optimizations really might work for different people. Not in a pluralistic different things […]

Keep reading →

Human Behavioral Biology – 03 – Behavioral Evolution II

Self-awareness

Behavioral Evolution II – Discuss additional evolved animal behaviors, introduce a controversial fourth building block called Group Selection, and introduce various criticisms of behavioral evolution.

Keep reading →

Human Behavioral Biology – 02 – Behavioral Evolution I

Self-awareness

Behavioral Evolution I – Introduction to behavioral evolution, the requirements for the evolution of populations, and the three building blocks of evolutionary behavior.

Keep reading →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →