Goodhart’s Law: When a measure becomes a goal, it ceases to become a measure. E.g. British colonialists tried to control snakes in India. They measured progress by number of snakes killed, offering money for snake corpses. People responded by breeding snakes & killing them.
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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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I mean, if it looked like a tree we would say so, too.
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In response to a colleague succinctly listing Trump’s crimes, a co-worker and one of his supporters darkly said “I want to know what the Bidens did in Ukraine”. Pareidolia.
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More like a polar bear.
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And then we felt the need to make computers dream about our wolfish nightmares.
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Not cursed! Pareidolia is cool!
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Can't sleep Airwolf will eat me
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I always took pareidolia to mean the ability to articulate an abstract shape by verbalising it as a more easily vocally identifiable object. "that cloud looks like a dragon" and "that shape in my toast looks like jesus"
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Do u have any insight on a psyche which makes u have a weird deep connect with someone whom u have never spoken a word,never met and just seen.
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