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136 - Prevalence Induced Concept Change

You Are Not So Smart

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Concept Crawl Expands

Concept creep is a natural phenomenon, and it's neither good nor bad. It's just what happens when brains spend a lot of time interacting with other brains trying to make sense of the world. Once we agreed that every person deserves respect, and has dignity by the virtue of their humanity, ideas like slavery and child labor became difficult to accept as a new form of cognitive dissonance spread through culture.

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