I call this "noticing confusion" (by way of @ESYudkowsky) and it's probably sufficient to be a singular hallmark of interesting people. The superpower comes from playing with what anomalies suggest about the explanations that fail to predict themhttps://twitter.com/paulg/status/1147505767039287296 …
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If you're a smart person who values being smart, it's critical that you notice that "because of evolutionary processes" isn't all that different from "because of the gods" if that's where your thinking terminates
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Smart people who value being smart can be very bad at noticing confusion in part because being good at it sometimes makes you look very naive and childlike, and can therefore threaten the social goods you're accustomed to getting for intelligence
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Peter Thiel helped make noticing confusion trendy by pointing out that certain secrets hiding in plain sight can translate to big money. Unfortunately, people can get very frustrated looking for high-value secrets if they have no practice looking for low-value secrets
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Because secret-seeking can look weird and foolish, people are usually only willing to look for secrets with cash value. But the people who find these are mostly weirdos, people who are constitutionally incapable of being well-adjusted adults and gave up trying a long time ago
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PG was vague so I didn’t really know what he was talking about. Is this all an application of critical thinking? A particular kind of critical thinking? I wish PG had given some startup examples
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