Machiavelli is the original exposer or low motives but I think by now his insights look pretty tame and few people will have their whole worldview shattered by them
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
Reading about what extreme Evangelical Christians actually believe, in their own words, is eye-opening, though it can be *very* intense nightmare fuel. I recommend the blogs No Longer Quivering and Somatic Strength, by religious abuse survivors.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
(Basically I think that’s the key insight; most people are inhabiting a mindset much more like the Quiverfull one than the “liberal” one you inhabit. Even nominally secular & “progressive” people.)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
Mean Girls, especially if you didn’t attend an American suburban high school. I went to a weird hippie school and thought the social dynamics in high school movies were unrealistic. THEY WEREN’T.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
Pretty much all how-to info on marketing makes claims about people having low motives. (Eben Pagan’s stuff seems better than average at saying some correct things. There’s a lot of pseudoscience out there.)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
You may hear anecdotes from upper-level business people and even university professors indicating that they make big decisions on “gut feel” and inexplicit social signals rather than sober cost-benefit analysis.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
Yeah, this one in particular I know. This doesn't seem that surprising, sufficiently well tuned intuition is indistinguishable from sitting down and calculating
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Replying to @ArtirKel
Not obvious to me that instantaneous gut-feel decisions come to the same conclusions that cost-benefit analysis would.
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I mean, you walk around in the world and do things and you don't regret it every day. Right now I'm contemplating going out for brunch. If I randomly go to Tartine as I usually do vs if I follow an optimal algorithm for decisionmaking under time constraints, maybe I'll go
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Replying to @ArtirKel @s_r_constantin
someehere else, but overall the plan would be similar. On that note, do you want to meet today for brunch?
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