Gurwinder Bhogal — Certainty is the Death of Thought (EP.155)
Infinite Loops
The Importance of Cognitive Diversity in Society
I completely agree that certainty is brain death, in my opinion. If you can frame things more as a continuum, more as a well, what the probabilities would suggest would be this and try to frame it that way, you're going to become wiser. And so my friend Tim Urban has a new book out called What's Our Problem? A self help book for societies. He shares your idea of, I think he calls it a thinking ladder. At the bottom rungs of the thinking ladder, our tribalism, our flat earth societies, our heavens gate cults are all popular on social media. It's something that we're exploring with O'Shaughnessy Ventures with our Discord
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