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Robin Hanson: How Global Elites Manufactured Stagnation and How We Escape
From the New World
The Split Brain and the Hidden Motives
The book is split into a first third that makes it plausible that humans might have many hidden motives. And then the last two thirds goes over ten different areas of life, arguing that in each area, hidden motives explain many of the puzzles that would otherwise not make sense. I think what's very interesting about this idea is that they are extremely positive and extremely negative corollaries. So i would say something likea we like to make ourselves the hero of our own story. While one negative corollary is we are constantly lying about ourselves, and we are not even aware of it. The key thing to notice about yourself: You think you know why you do most everything you do.
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