Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)
Very Bad Wizards
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Are You Using Retrospective Counterfactuals?
I tend to think like okay what's my life like without the dog and I'm using this sort of counterfactual yeah well and turns out less likely to die of a heart attack is that what convinced you? Well no it doesn't say something about my character if I only get a dog to get attention from the ladies well no it does but it's just at least you'll have a dog. So so I think we do like I guess what I'm saying is I Think we do think in counterfactuals It's interesting to think about whether you would get caught up in looking at your pre your retrospective counterfactuallys, he says.
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