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Analects
Here you'll find all the btrmt. content from across the projects.
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Our brains track two kinds of uncertainty. Expected uncertainty makes us
trust our model of the world more and exploit familiar patterns (be biased).
Unexpected uncertainty makes us explore and update our model
(prefer noise). Correctly diagnosing the uncertainty is the key.
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Cogntive dissonance often describes a bias towards seeing ourselves as
coherent. Sure, it’s sneaky and prevalent, but entirely necessary. And, other
times we tolerate how noisy we are, keeping us open to new insights and
better equipped for a complex world.
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Cognitive dissonance is often thought of as the <em>discomfort</em> we have with
conflicting cognitions. But it’s really about how the brain will smooth over
<em>dissonant</em> cognitions, whether they’re uncomfortable or not. It happens a lot.
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Without time-travel, evolutionary narratives can only identify theories that
<em>don’t</em> make sense (like death drives). It can’t tell you what theories <em>do</em>
make sense, because you can make many to explain the same thing. All they do
is let you see what people wish the world was like.
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There’s no hidden version of you. If anything, we are a collection of bits
and pieces that we weave together from the stories we learn from others. You
don’t need to find an authentic <em>self</em>, you need to find a story you can
weave that makes you happy.