https://www.readthesequences.com/Is-That-Your-True-Rejection

Why this article?
Because I have spent whole conversations, sometimes whole lines of inquiry or whole years, trying to solve my own false rejections of ideas. Knowledge of this concept and quick, reflexive noticing of when I was proffering a false rejection would have saved me a lot of time.

Discussion questions:
* How do we practice noticing when we are not giving our true rejection?
* How do we (gentle?) interrogate whether someone else is not giving their true rejection?
* How do we get to true rejections faster, and how might we practice doing that?
* Alternately, is this notion of true and false rejections wrong or an unhelpful way to think about things?

https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with-social-science-and-how-to-fix-it/

Why this article?
Good overview of the state of post replication crisis social sciences

Discussion questions:
* What heuristics do you use on whether a finding will replicate?
* If social psychology research is totally broken, what can we use instead?

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/14/21137882/prediction-markets-bloomberg-sanders-president

Why this article:
It provides a thoughtful look at a thorny epistemic question, and it's long enough ago that we can evaluate it with the benefit of hindsight.

Discussion questions:
* Given these limitations, what should we infer from currently-existing prediction markets?
* What does this tell us about other ways of aggregating information?

Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/09/01/many-tribes-2020-election-worriers-an-ethnographic-report/#comments-wrapper

Why this article:
I'm worried and I want to know whether I should be.

Discussion question: How worried should we be?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/36Dhz325MZNq3Cs6B/the-amish-and-strategic-norms-around-technology

Why this article:
Interesting ideas that we might be able to apply to our own lives

Discussion questions:
* What aspects of our lives do we want to protect from malign technical influences?
* Is it possible to get the benefits of the Amish strategy without the insularity?