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    1. Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️‏ @webdevMason 6 Jul 2019
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      Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️ Retweeted Paul Graham

      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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      Paul GrahamVerified account @paulg
      If you had asked me when I was younger to to make a list of valuable skills, I probably wouldn't have included the ability to notice anomalies, but I'm increasingly convinced this is one of the most valuable skills of all.
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    2. Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️‏ @webdevMason 6 Jul 2019
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      To notice strangeness is to intuitively detect bad explanations. Strangeness is a function of surprise, and surprise is a function of ignorance

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    3. Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️‏ @webdevMason 6 Jul 2019
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      Yesterday I asked "why don't sharks eat people?" This is the kind of question that an 8-year-old might ask, so it seems cute now. But all the obvious answers are non-answers. "We're not a part of their natural diet." Really? Where do they learn that, shark school?

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    4. Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️‏ @webdevMason 6 Jul 2019
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      I don't mean to pick on my "natural diet" answerers too much, because they're answering in a way that makes sense in a world where you're treated like you must've gotten kicked in the head if you suggest that sharks not eating people is some great mystery

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    5. Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️‏ @webdevMason 6 Jul 2019
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      A subskill of this process is noticing when an explanation doesn't contain new information, e.g. "the gods did it." Another is simulating a lack of familiarity with the world such that you can make predictions from explanation even after seeing the answer at the back of the book

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      Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️‏ @webdevMason 6 Jul 2019
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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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        2. Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️‏ @webdevMason 6 Jul 2019
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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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        3. Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️‏ @webdevMason 6 Jul 2019
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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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        4. Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️‏ @webdevMason 6 Jul 2019
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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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        1. Paul Crowley‏ @ciphergoth 6 Jul 2019
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          I love the "why don’t whales get cancer more often?" example from https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/14/living-by-the-sword/ …

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          Every smart person would eventually become a philosophy professor straddling idealist and materialist thought in your scenario

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