Matthew Principle: Advantage begets advantage, leading to social, economic, and cultural oligopolies. The richer you are the easier it is to get even richer, the more recognition a scientist receives for a discovery the more recognition he’ll receive for future discoveries, etc.
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Predictive Coding: There is no actual movement on a TV screen; your brain invents it. There are no actual spaces between spoken words; your brain inserts them. Human perception is like predictive text, replacing the unknown with the expected. Predictive Coding leads to…
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Apophenia: We impose our imaginations on arrangements of data, seeing patterns where no such patterns exist. A common form of Apophenia is…
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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. If a drug addict commits suicide we assume the drug habit led to the suicide, even if it didn’t. Another form of Apophenia is…
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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. This paranoia preserved our species, but cursed us with pareidolia, so we now see wolves even in the skies.pic.twitter.com/9pxdCZ4MrN
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And that’s it! There are many other ideas but these are the ones that came to mind first (availability bias), and I think they provide good springboards for understanding a wide range of phenomena. Feel free to reply with your own, and see if you can explain them in 1 tweet!
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"[...] you didn’t protect me from Chelsea’s views. You protected Chelsea’s views from me." I believe that's exactly right. Interesting article.
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This article was the first thing I read by you and it blew me away.
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Wow. That is a fantastically written article. Not only a relateable story to anyone on twitter, but peppered with research and a powerful ending. Well done, and totally agree.
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This is confusing to me, considering the Radical Phase Transition...
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Exactly... It's in the direct collision with it... I wonder, how he got toward that "Radical Phase Transition" nonsense. I mean, it's real, but in opposite direction - as this idea suggests...
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