2/ Survivorship bias is real but often over-stated. The expressions of successful entrepreneurs are a function of what they perceive; and their perceptual filters are tuned to the task of entrepreneurship.
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3/ But perceptual emulation isn't really subject to conscious deliberation or control. You really can't fake it. Either integrate it into your beliefs, or don't.
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4/ It's frustrating to me because so many successful entrepreneurs have really bad ideas about things they have no experience with arrogantly and mistakenly translated to other contexts. Ideas that I *don't* want to adopt.
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5/ If I were to deeply think about and integrate what, say,
@paulg has to say about entrepreneurship, it *would* increase my probability of success. Even if he's wrong, causally! Say what you want about him, but that's the world he's lived in, successfully.2 replies 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
6/ But, if try to partition his good parts from the bad, I'm not going to end up with the same perceptual filters. And, I'll implicitly prioritize different things. And since I am *not* a successful entrepreneur, the difference lowers my relative probability of success!
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7/ It feels like trying to decide what the appropriate distance to swim away from the shore is. And it's exhausting.
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I think
@chaosprime or@eigenrobot or@sonyasupposedly had a tweet sorta about this (i.e. adopting habits of people whose habits are aligned with what you want) but I can't find it.1 reply 0 retweets 7 likesShow this thread -
sounds like us
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My highly-tuned wetware means I knows I know the correct fuzzy socialgroup, just not the correct element.
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seriously though if you can crack the code on where the line lies between vampiric exploitation of social cognition and sticking feathers in your ass because you think it'll make you a chicken, let me know
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