Truth Over Narrative
Some of the most important questions to ask yourself are: Who has the right answer, but I ignore because they’re inarticulate? And what do I believe is true but is actually just good marketing?
Morgan Housel • Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life
fantastic essay on epistemology
humans are coherence-maximisers, not truth-seekers
the trouble is that depending on your priors, a coherent explanation - a simple story that fits together well, isn't well correlated with being useful or true -
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