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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Getting over one's ego and admitting confusion does have benefits. As to the sharks, my marine biologist friend told me that we don't have enough fat, the way that seals and fish do. However, when sharks run out of food supply and get hungry, they WILL eat humans !!
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Wouldn't that mean that overweight people are more likely to be eaten by shark? ... Well, I guess that depends on whether sharks are able to infer the fat content of individual humans or not.
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@EricRWeinstein announced on JRE this week that he’s launching a podcast entirely devoted to secret-seeking. He calls those ideas which open up entirely new worlds of discovery ‘portals’, and has appropriately named his new show “The Portal.” I’m BEYOND excited.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I find a very interesting version of this when people detect errors in things they’ve just said...they hear a logical/factual anomaly in the words as they come out their mouth and can correct in real time. I’ve never had an uninteresting conversation with someone who does that.
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Pls answer the mystery of the shark
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