My favorite review yet of "The Elephant in the Brain."https://twitter.com/hamandcheese/status/957962054874345474 …
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Personally, I'm pretty happy just to understand what's going on. But if step 1 is "knowledge" and step 3 is "profit!", then I'm definitely stuck on step 2.
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So let me ask you (internet friends who have read the book or are familiar with the main ideas, e.g., from Robin's blog): What do you do about the elephant?
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Self-acceptance. Our motivés hide because we disapprove of them. But seeing isn't already understanding so we also need curiosity, we have to see ourselves as fascinating strangers.
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If you want to change your motives? Accept your disapproval and get curious where it comes from.
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I think Why Buddhism is True by
@robertwrighter is a good attempt at providing concrete ways to deal with the elephant (or at least aspects of it)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Haven't read it yet (on my to-do list), but I've begun to think about this problem as "Christianity without Easter". If Jesus died on the cross and that was the end of the story, you'd have a cynical conclusion: everyone would selfishly betray you in the end.
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This is the alt-right/Trumpian worldview: everyone is selfish, we should be honest about that, declare Me/Us/America First!, and move on. But Christianity With Easter offers a path to transcending that terrible conclusion.
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Although if evolution determined that strategic ignorance is useful, than maybe knowledge is not power. Maybe knowledge is an active hindrance. Both because "self-consciousness" can be debilitating, and for a similar reason econs cooperate less in prisoner's dilemmas.
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I'll wait until I've read the book to give detailed feedback, but I will say one thing. Meditation (especially after significant practice) is the best tool I've found to catch my brain while making decisions for usually hidden, often bad reasons.
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Surround myself with incentives for accuracy and intellectual honesty where feasible, both 'objective' incentives (e.g. writing down checkable predictions) and social incentives.
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Work to make your cheap talk expensive
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Not claiming these are "the answers" but, they have some good ideas that might help: 1. http://ow.ly/GkLV30i5MLF 2. http://ow.ly/eAr830i5MNw 3.http://ow.ly/j0yV30i5MU7
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