If you, for eg. have a bias towards self-reliance, your choices may be robust to some consequences, but you may create harder choices for others (including chickens if you grant them personhood). That's the definition of a negative externality.
Another line of thought that I suspect is very dangerous to read as virtue. "Knowing how stuff works" is not the same as "knowing how to work stuff profitably." A lot of self-congratulatory skill/knowledge is the latter.
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Taleb's green lumber fallacy interpreted differently. I think it's actively bad that someone can get rich trading green lumber without knowing what it is, because they can create unsolvable problems for people who do know and care what it is.
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A lot of education valorized by the less principled members of the school of thought you're steel-manning is in fact exactly this kind. Teaches you how to win with "green lumber", and how to convince yourself you deserved it. Let others deal with the externalities of your hack.
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