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Your Higher Mind is aware that humans are often delusional, and it wants you to be not delusional. It sees beliefs as the most recent draft of a work in progress, and as it lives more and learns more, the Higher Mind is always happy to make a revision.
Tim Urban • What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
Verbal gaffes are fairly normal for people running for office. My bias is to prefer ordinary explanations for our observations as opposed to extraordinary ones, assuming the facts support both views.
Scott Adams • Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America
1. Delay Your Intuition : Most people form an impression in seconds and spend the rest of their time confirming it. The best wait for all the information before letting their intuition speak.
2. Loss Aversion Creates Permanent Programs: Once you give people something (a perk, a feature, a benefit), it’s nearly impossible to take back. The founder w... See more
2. Loss Aversion Creates Permanent Programs: Once you give people something (a perk, a feature, a benefit), it’s nearly impossible to take back. The founder w... See more
Brain Food: The Three Lenses of Opportunity Cost
Belief and Delusion
Andrew Tam • 13 cards
Flip came back with receipts to address Joe Budden's statement that Tyla is not Black...of course Mel gets caught in the fire lol https://t.co/rvjtV3qEE6
Micah Jung Unx.comBoth rationalists and ideologues are prone to miss the persistent difference between what the arguments say and how reality plays out. Inference is brittle, ideology distorts.
Joscha Bachx.comdeleted earlier but reposting by popular demand
here’s what he’s actually saying:
> the “non-governmental entity” is just bedrock itself (his fund) and its LPs
> he’s reflecting on ruining companies by subtly pressuring founders to give up their own vision and do what the fund wants of them__... See more
adammajx.comWhen TDS expands to include “stick your head in the sand and don’t collect ground truth data lest you become more informed…”
Chamath Palihapitiyax.comSo deeply ingrained do they become in our psyche that even when we are presented with information that directly contradicts our paradigm, we ignore or explain away that data, allowing an unhealthy paradigm to diminish our dream.