Overcoming Bias is a blog that is new to me but which I subscribed to right away. When I tell you that I have spent the last two weeks viciously slashing down my RSS subscription lists you will understand immediately how big an endorsement this is and what an idiot I have been when it comes to managing my time and attention.

Overcoming Bias: The Evil Pleasure.

We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people.  We feel an even deeper pleasure letting everyone know of this fact.  This feeling is EVIL.  Learn to see it in yourself, and then learn to be horrified by how thoroughly it can poison your mind.  Yes evidence may at times force you to disagree with a majority, and your friends may have correlated exposure to that evidence, but take no pleasure when you and your associates disagree with others; that is the road to rationality ruin.