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#600 - 16 Lessons From 600 Episodes - Andrew Schulz, Douglas Murray & Alex Hormozi

Modern Wisdom

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What Is a Kafka Trap?

A kafka trap is a fallacy where if someone denies being x it is taken as evidence that the person is x. It lumps together people who genuinely are not guilty of a perceived offense in with those who have committed the perceived offense and are trying to escape punishment. When intelligent people affiliate themselves to ideology their intellect ceases to guard against wishful thinking and instead begins to fortify it causing them to inadvertently mastermind their own delusion and to very cleverly become stupid.

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