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On Communities of Knowledge, Virtue Signalling, & Sacred Values vs. Consequences with Steven A. Sloman (Author of 'The Knowledge Illusion')

Scaling Knowledge

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The Power of Consequences in Decision Making

Shane Frederick: The explanation of sort of sympathy is surprising that it's like across the board where I would expect that everyone has areas in which they care less about the details of the product or they just want to solve this problem quickly. If like people have the... I'm sure that that's true, right? Engineers who build audio equipment are more likely to be reflective about audio equipment than about other things,. So I haven't looked into that kind of domain specificity. But the point of that Shane Frederick wants to make with this test is that, you know, beyond any specific domain interests, there is this general tendency to be reflective or not reflective.

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