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Many people who discover LessWrong Rationality for the first time fall into a valley where it makes them worse at thinking and living for a while. It causes many people to forswear Rationality in anger. Here are the symptoms of the Valley of Bad Rationality:
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Characterization: 1. Rejecting previously-useful guides like community and tradition without good enough replacements. 2. Trying to power through everything using System 2 only thinking. 3. Wild overconfidence in one's abilities as a Rationalist.
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