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Rationality and Cognitive Science (with Anna Riedl)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Constraints of the Social Environment

We tend to assume everyone's minds are like much more like our own than they really are, this is the idea of the typical mind fallacy. For almost any trait you could imagine, people actually differ on that trait and their internal experiences can be wildly different. On the other hand, there's also this sense in which humans copy each other to such a high degree that this sort of space of like different actions you can take is way more constrained than you might imagine.

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