
Absurdity Bias, Neom Edition
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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This is an audioversion of astral codex ten, provided the permission of the author, scott alexander f. Alexandros m expresses concern about my post on neom. My main argument against it is surdity. But isn't the absurdity heristic? A cognitive bias? Lincoln posed didn't lots of true things sound absurd before they turned out to be true? For example, evolution, quanta, mechanics. Don't i specifically believe in things that many people have found self evidently absurd? Sounds silly to me, so iam going to make fun of it.
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