especially your opinions of who has good opinions and ideas, what an epistemological nightmare
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This reminds me of the book The Elephant in the Brain. We are master of deceiving ourselves
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You are proabably right
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Always helpful to look at other sides/opinions/perspectives when analyzing anything.
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"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard Feynman
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It it called confirmation bias, and many of us are unaware even of its existence!
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Very true, but the realization is to some extent a function of age/maturity.
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Sometimes we do exactly this. We unconsciously fool ourselves just so we can be fine with the outcome.
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"we unconsciously fool ourselves", maybe it's the conscious system (we) being fooled by the unconscious one (another system), just so we can be fine with its outcome and not ours

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