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Front Matter
4 chapters2
Part I: The Anatomy of Error
8 chapters3
Part II: The Persistence Engine
8 chapters- Chapter 9: The Sunk Cost of Consensus
- Chapter 10: The Replication Problem
- Chapter 11: How Incentive Structures Manufacture Error
- Chapter 12: Precision Without Accuracy
- Chapter 13: The Einstellung Effect
- Chapter 14: The Consensus Enforcement Machine
- Chapter 15: Complexity Hiding in Simplicity
- Chapter 16: The Zombie Idea
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Part III: The Correction
6 chapters5
Part IV: Field Autopsies
8 chapters- Chapter 23: Field Autopsy: Medicine
- Chapter 24: Field Autopsy: Economics
- Chapter 25: Field Autopsy: Psychology
- Chapter 26: Field Autopsy: Nutrition Science
- Chapter 27: Field Autopsy: Criminal Justice
- Chapter 28: Field Autopsy: Military Strategy
- Chapter 29: Field Autopsy: Technology
- Chapter 30: Field Autopsy: Education
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Part V: The Toolkit
7 chapters- Chapter 31: Red Flags
- Chapter 32: The Epistemic Health Checklist
- Chapter 33: How to Disagree Productively
- Chapter 34: Adversarial Collaboration and Other Tools for Producing Less Wrong Knowledge
- Chapter 35: The Humility Chapter
- Chapter 36: Teaching Epistemic Humility
- Chapter 37: Building Better Knowledge Systems
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Part VI: Synthesis
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