Much of social psychology seems to be premised on the bizarre assumption that what people really care about is not real-world outcomes but the state of their own mind: self-esteem, a positive self-image, dissonance reduction, feelings of control, reducing uncertainty, etc.
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I ended up using your tweet as a jumping-off point for an essay about the human mind. Wasn't sure if you wanted to be named / directly linked to, let me know if you do. :)
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Very interesting piece Kaj. A lot I agree with here. (Am happy to be given credit for the view you think is wrong 😅 but don't mind either way).
Thank you! Glad you like it and weren't too annoyed by having a whole essay criticizing a random tweet.😅 (Since you didn't have a preference, I put in a link for completeness's sake.)
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the whole sequence is extremely interesting!
this section here seems to be relevant to your article on rationalization markets - lesswrong.com/s/ZbmRyDN8TCpB
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