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Ep. 26 - Cognitive Science

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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The Psychology of Plausibility

People of course really like ideas that are multi-act, right? Here's my idea and I can use it to bridge to this domain. We want a construct that has been produced by many convergent lines of investigation. By viewing convergence, I get bias reduction. And man, does that matter for overcoming the way in which we bullshit ourselves with salience? Now trustworthiness isn't truth. It's not certainty. What would you have? You would have conspiracy theories. That's exactly what conspiracy theories do. They're formable shitting because they're very, look, if you will just accept that the British royal family are lizard reptilian aliens from another dimension... Just give me

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