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53: The Case Against Reality | Don Hoffman (classic + updated)

The After On Podcast

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The Evolution of Perceptions

In evolutionary game theory, these functions tell you what payoffs you will get for the various actions you take. The whole game is to get more fitness payoffs than your competition. And it turns out the fitness functions themselves are just utterly unlike objective reality. So I'm saying that when evolution by natural selection is shaping our perceptions, the selection forces are uniformly against anything at all like the truth.

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