Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think (2007)

Source: http://lesswrong.com/lw/jx/we_change_our_minds_less_often_than_we_think/

From his October 2007 LessWrong post.

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