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Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 24, 2023

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

Culture war topics are accepted, and proposals for a better intro post are appreciated.

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The fact that you rationally recognize such beliefs to be maladaptive is more progress than most make.

I'm not aware of any empirically validated strategy, but my advice would be to train yourself to consider specific situations as triggers, such that whenever you encounter them you jolt and remember to think things through. Eventually it should become engrained through force of habit.

If you're feeling experimental, well there's LSD, but loosening one's priors is not universally a good thing.