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Ironically the biggest cognitive flaw is believing that these apply to other people but not to yourself. I saw a comment from someone at the center for applied

• travisjungroth 6y ago
  Of course that would be a top reason. 1. Find flaws in my thinking. 2. Find flaws in other people’s thinking.
  • pontus 6y ago
    I meant that each person had to disclose the single reason they wanted to take the course. Out of all responses, one of most common #1 reasons was to expose issues in other people's thinking. In other words, some people may have ranked them as you did, but many people ranked them in the opposite order.
• h2odragon 6y ago
  Finding flaws in my own thinking is good enough, having done so its still difficult to address those flaws. If someone else's thinking is whacked, it's even harder to diagnose or have a positive effect on. Of course the question of "is our thinking flawed" is not terribly relevant, much of the time: our actions are influenced as much by things like body needs we're often oblivious about.
• cambalache 6y ago
  Exactly, I always get a good laugh visiting from time to time "lesswrong" and "slate star codex". Reading the commenters you quickly notice they commit all the same fallacies (from group-thinking, to defering to authority for no reason) that they criticize in "normal" humans. Needless to say the same applies to HN, and to every one of us.