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Episode 23: Celeste Kidd, UC Berkeley, on attention and curiosity, how we form beliefs, and where certainty comes from

Generally Intelligent

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Do Animals Get Real Certain Real Fasting?

In order to learn anything, you just kind of do need to be really biased. I was like, it gets a lot harder to use our system for making judgments and forming beliefs in those very high level spaces. We've looked at misinformed beliefs across large swaths of the population. So they have literally a financial interest in saying something that will like guarantee did that will get them attention. Those are not good evidence that somebody actually has the belief.

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