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28 SEP 21 :: Dunning-Kruger Effect: Awareness of the limitations of cognition (thinking) requires a proficiency in metacognition (thinking about thinking) @G_S_Bhogal |
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28 SEP 21 :: Brandolini's Law (aka the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle): It takes a lot more energy to refute bullshit than to produce it. Hence, the world is full of unrefuted bullshit. @G_S_Bhogal |
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21 SEP 21 :: Dunning-Kruger Effect: Awareness of the limitations of cognition (thinking) requires a proficiency in metacognition (thinking about thinking) @G_S_Bhogal |
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21 SEP 21 :: Brandolini's Law (aka the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle): It takes a lot more energy to refute bullshit than to produce it. Hence, the world is full of unrefuted bullshit. @G_S_Bhogal |
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21 SEP 21 :: The Toxoplasma of Rage: h/t: @slatestarcodex @G_S_Bhogal |
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21 SEP 21 :: Scope Neglect: We evolved for the small scale of tribal life, so we can't comprehend the big numbers that recently entered human life. @G_S_Bhogal |
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21 SEP 21 :: Abstraction: There are scales of explanation. A human can be considered a person, mammal, collection of cells, collection of stardust. @G_S_Bhogal |
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23 MAR 21 :: Dunning-Kruger Effect: Awareness of the limitations of cognition (thinking) requires a proficiency in metacognition (thinking about thinking) @G_S_Bhogal |
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15 MAR 21 :: Politics is the show, and journalism is the fanfic. @G_S_Bhogal |
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2 APR 20 :: Quarantining God @G_S_Bhogal @rabbithole |
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13 MAR 20 :: Dunning-Kruger Effect: a proficiency in metacognition (thinking about thinking).In other words, being stupid makes you too stupid to realize how stupid you are. @G_S_Bhogal |
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12 FEB 20 :: Shifting Baseline Syndrome: Frog says to Fish, "how's the water?" Fish replies, "what's water?" @G_S_Bhogal |
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12 FEB 20 :: Narrative Fallacy: When we see a sequence of facts we interpret them as a story by threading them together into an imagined chain of cause & effect @G_S_Bhogal |
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12 FEB 20 :: Pareidolia: For aeons predators stalked us in undergrowth & shadow. In such times survival favored the paranoid - those who could discern a wolf from the vaguest of outlines. @G_S_Bhogal |
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10 FEB 20 :: Dunning-Kruger Effect: a proficiency in metacognition (thinking about thinking).In other words, being stupid makes you too stupid to realize how stupid you are. @G_S_Bhogal |
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10 FEB 20 :: As Marcus Aurelius observed, "We suffer more often in imagination that in reality." @G_S_Bhogal |
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