The solution, in a nutshell - “instead of defining yourself by your ability to reason, define yourself by your willingness to learn. Then, admitting you’re wrong, instead of feeling like an attack, will become an opportunity for growth.” (Unless of course defining yourself by your ability to learn is also a rationalized self-delusion 👀 in which case we’re all screwed anyway, haha)

Anyway - always be open to the possibility that you may be wrong, and stack sats.

“The standard rationalist path is to try to avoid delusion by learning about cognitive biases and logical fallacies, but this can be counter productive. Research suggests that teaching people about misinformation often just causes them to dismiss facts they don’t like as misinformation, while teaching them logic often results in them applying that logic selectively to justify whatever they want to believe.”

for a video that goes into the dangers of bias, it got surprisingly political towards the beginning.

Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before stumbling. It is better to be humble in spirit with the lowly Than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

I also loved that at the end, he basically says those who think they’re humble aren’t, so he doesn’t think he’s humble… But he’s trying, and trying to be humble is the same as being humble, lol. I guess there’s really no way around that paradoxical irony.