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Regal Noices @boom
@nosilverv
This is pretty important to me... My... "intellectual journey" started in 2011 when recognising an utter inability to make decisions I started looking for help online and eventually stumbled upon lesswrong and its decision theories. For a long time I was a "rationalist", but then
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omfg the reason why the heuristics and biases program / thinking fast and slow is upheld despite we knowing the entire thing is wrong while gigerenzer's and the naturalistic decision making programs are erased is political 😭😭😭 its politics all the way up/down 😭😭😭 twitter.com/nosilverv/stat…
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Regal Noices @boom
@nosilverv
I think I got more honest, or more insight into my condition: it was a phenomenological disorder and a philosophical misunderstanding (you don't make decisions, you make choices, decisions you will). Both rooted in psychological factors. So I went down that rabbit hole.
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Regal Noices @boom
@nosilverv
But there's only so much you can be gaslit into introjecting your blame - ou o sal não salga a terra ou a terra não se deixa salgar - smart psychology imo will always lead to an analysis of the social environment (sociology) which will always lead to its mixed sum nature.
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Regal Noices @boom
@nosilverv
And so we come full circle: from a deeply personal inability to decide, to a cope via intellectual 'decision theories' and frameworks, to a more honest dealing with one's personal gripes, to a scary looking outwards, instead of inwards, into society and one's original context.
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Regal Noices @boom
@nosilverv
Inability to decide → LessWrong/Decision-Making/Heuristics and Biases → Psychology, Focusing, Psychoanalysis → Sociology, Adversarial/Conflict Sociology → New understanding of the context in which the original """symptom""" presented itself.
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