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bosco

@selentelechia

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Aug 30, 2020

speculation time, friends: what does "counterintuitive" mean to you? I ask because I keep running into this thing in meditation where I realize "oh, I need to do [thing] like x and not like y" it feels "counterintuitive," but what does that actually mean?

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@Triquetrea

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Contrary to hunches and expectations about how X works, only makes sense on a second pass. The Monty Hall problem is a classic case of people getting fucked by bad mathematical intuition, for example. It's "counterintuitive" for many people because expectation is off target.

10:16 PM · Aug 30, 2020·Twitter Web App

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