Episode 266: I Want to Half-Believe
Very Bad Wizards
The Role of Belief in Superstitions
"I think you have to be like one of these toxic rationalists and they say, do you think even Sam Harris would admit to having a superstition belief?" he says. " Contrasting with me is like a classic half believer in the jinx who like got very mad at you all for congratulating the Argentina win." He adds that people who demonstrate calibration between belief and practice are just about 15% of the sample.
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