Helen Pluckrose

We know from the psychologists that all of us are subject to plenty of cognitive biases. So is there no hope?

It's not necessarily hopeless. We are fortunate to live in societies in which we are free to challenge others' ideas.

Good societies provide a system of checks and balances on bad ideas. e.g. through journalism and democracy.

These work because although any individual may be subject to biases, those same biases unlikely to be shared by everyone else.

In this way we can average-out and correct for our individual psychological biases. We can also use reason.