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The Nature of Mimetic Desire with Rob Henderson (WiM351)
The "What is Money?" Show
The Bias of Meditation
Humans are biased towards imitating prestigious individuals, high status people. We also have this bias where if lots of people are doing something, then we'll naturally follow it too. In the ancestral environment, that was an adaptive survival behavior in the ancestral environment. But today we live in a very different circumstance and so we end up copying influencers and people who maybe are doing something that quite as useful as the prestigious people in the past.
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