User:AD/LW/Ugh field

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Pavlovian conditioning can cause humans to unconsciously flinch from even thinking about a serious personal problem they have. We call it an "ugh field". The ugh field forms a self-shadowing blind spot covering an area desperately in need of optimization.

Blog posts

• Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points
• Ugh fields by Roko
• Defeating Ugh Fields in Practice by Psychohistorian
• Learned Blankness by [[Anna Salamon]] *[http://lesswrong.com/lw/4up/dont_fear_failure/ Don't Fear Failure] by [http://shugyoshayear.com/ atucker] ==See also== *[[Akrasia]] *[[Priming]], [[Curiosity stopper]] *[[Compartmentalization]] *[[Trivial inconvenience]] *[[Motivated cognition]] [[Category:Jargon]]