Vervaeke & (Green)Hall: Bullshit & Simulated Thinking
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The Meta-Psychotechnology of Mindfulness
David, do you have a sense of what that looks like a meta psycho technology? Can you, can you make the meta more real. So let's say I have a particular psychotechnology, right, mindfulness. That helps me do with certain kinds of biases in my attention processes. Right. But you don't want to permanently shut off your inferential machinery you need it. Another psychotechnology over here is called active open mindedness. What it does is it prevents it protects the inferential machinery from all this salience machinery. The problem is if I, if I let that inappropriately bias my inference I'll keep jumping to conclusions. And that's where you get a lot of bias in
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