79: On Waking up to Constricted Intellectualism & Cognitive Biases
Latter Day Struggles
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Confidence Bias
People just sort of fell in line with a lot of things that he said that in retrospect we're just kind of outright crazy. He also really expanded polygamy, a hundredfold right above and beyond what Joseph had done which already was wrong of course. So thank you for that anything. Okay, let's move on to the next one conspiracy bias is our brains tendency to believe stories that portray us as innocent victims or unsung heroes while vilifying an outgroup or individual. I would invite you to go to D Michael Quinn's book called the origins of power and read all about masterful shenanigans Brigham Young is the king of masterful shenanigans in getting himself to be the Prophet.
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