#epistemology #rationality # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Singlethink #to-digest >In my very first step along the Way, _I caught the feeling—_generalized over the subjective experience—and said, “So _that’s_ what it feels like to shove an unwanted truth into the corner of my mind! Now I’m going to notice every time I do that, and clean out _all_ my corners!” > This discipline I named _singlethink_, after Orwell’s [[Doublethink|doublethink]]. In doublethink, you forget, and then forget you have forgotten. In singlethink, you notice you are forgetting, and then you remember. You hold only a single non-contradictory thought in your mind at once ~ [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] # External links