"To be explained: It feels to me that in recent years, people have gotten stupider, or that stupid has gotten bigger, or that the parts of people that were always stupid have gotten louder, or something like that.I’ve come up with a suite of hypotheses to explain this (with a little help from my friends). … Continue reading [Question] Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses.
Tag: cognitive bias
Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet
Four problems that biases help us address:Problem 1: Too much information.Problem 2: Not enough meaning.Problem 3: Need to act fast.Problem 4: What should we remember?-Buster Benson, "Cognitive bias cheat sheet." Medium.com. September 1, 2016. Recommend reading this in its entirety, but at minimum, it is worth a click through and scroll to the bottom to … Continue reading Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet
Gardener’s Vision
"Without communication, connection, and empathy, it becomes easy for actors to take on the “gardener’s vision”: to treat those they are acting upon as less human or not human at all and to see the process of interacting with them as one of grooming, of control, of organization. This organization, far from being a laudable … Continue reading Gardener’s Vision
cafebedouin.org 