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* Gossip: The only problem I have with where the series of recent postings "The Story of Us" from Tim Urban seems to be headed is that... while it does a great job of modeling & visualizing what's happening in groups/societies' culture & ideas, it's not doing enough looking at different characteristics of different types of thinking: truth (true vs false), interest (beneficial vs harmful), ethics (right/should vs wrong/should-not), wants (likes/loves vs dislikes/hates), etc. Some dimensions of thoughts themselves. At the very least, when thinking about the collective/group, the common truth and common interest has to be taken into account. (Something can be all combinations of {true, false} * {beneficial, harmful}. ) And, at least in the human domain, a common ethics and wants is part of the human condition/environment/world (like the previous combinations, {right, wrong} * {likes, dislikes} can be any/all of the possibilities), and becomes a pseudo/quasi-truth about the human-side of the world around them, apart from the natural-side of the world around them. Some ideas, information, knowledge, policy may have more than the single-dimension of truth, and have additional multi-dimensions of interests, ethics, wants. This side of the reality/problem has been a long-time question or homework for me... and I should try to write about this. But, for now, leaving a gossip here... just as memo/reminder. (I think Tim Urban is also aware of this, but maybe decided to simplify the model by selecting the "truth" dimension as the primary/guiding rule/dimension. We'll see from his future posts.)
2019. 10. 12.
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Wait But Why
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_But_Why
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The Story of Us: Full Series
https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html
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Political Disney World
December 15, 2019 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/12/political-disney-world.html
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More vertical tugs-of-war:
Why Procrastinators Procrastinate
October 30, 2013 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastinate.html
Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think
June 13, 2014 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/06/taming-mammoth-let-peoples-opinions-run-life.html
Religion for the Nonreligious
October 19, 2014 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious.html
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Sources and related reading
At the heart of an effort to grow in our political lives has to be a continual effort to get better at thinking and communicating. There are a lot of great writers on the internet dedicating themselves to helping people think and argue more rationally. I’ve learned a lot from them. Some of my favorites:
The mecca of rationalism, Less Wrong, run by Eliezer Yudkowsky and his ragtag gang of rationalists. Whenever there’s a cutting-edge new idea making the rounds, Eliezer was writing about it 5-10 years ago. A deep dive on Less Wrong will make you smarter. This collection is a nice place to start.
A Less Wrong offspring, Scott Alexander’s blog Slate Star Codex is a giant pile of clarity. If you liked this post, you’ll really like SSC. Specific further reading on ideas in this post: Scott on motte-and-baileying, weak-manning, and the inoculation effect.
Another big pile of wisdom: Paul Graham’s essays. You can read about his “hierarchy of disagreement” I referenced here.
Julia Galef, co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality, is a great explainer of rational concepts. Go on a spiral through these sometime.
Adam Grant spends his life using research to embarrass conventional wisdom. Exceptional communicator but very bald.
Shane Snow dives deep on how we can think better, and he makes it fun. His awesome article on intellectual humility is especially relevant to this series.
Other resources:
A great collection of research that I referenced in the post: The Cognitive Science of Political Thought. And a summary of some of the findings.
The study I referenced about how we process challenges to our political and non-political beliefs with different parts of our brain. By Jonas T. Kaplan, Sarah I. Gimbel and Sam Harris. The article’s citation list is full of interesting research. Other studies I referenced about how politics makes us bad at thinking: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Some nice examples of straw-manning and weak-manning in politics, by Yvonne Raley and Robert Talisse (who seems to have coined the term “weak man”). To go deeper, here’s their paper on the topic.
Research on how progressives tend to be more concerned about the global and conservatives more about the local. By Adam Waytz, Liane Young, Ravi Iyer, and Jonathan Haidt.
Cool interactive exploring how Fox, CNN, and MSNBC differ in what stories they cover and how they present them.
Wikipedia has nice compilations of cognitive biases and fallacies.
Rapoport’s Rules for how to be a great arguer by doing the opposite of straw-manning (sometimes called steel-manning).
The original explanation of the motte and bailey doctrine by Nicholas Shackel, who coined the term.
The original explainer on the inoculation effect.
Fun reminder of how idiotic it is to assume correlation implies causation.
A book to remind you that you don’t know shit.
https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/12/political-disney-world.html
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The American Presidents—Washington to Lincoln
February 19, 2014 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/02/american-presidents-washington-lincoln.html
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/02/american-presidents-washington-lincoln.html/2
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/02/american-presidents-washington-lincoln.html/3
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Horizontal History
January 13, 2016 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/01/horizontal-history.html
... and from the comments there...
Histography
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Our Most Popular Posts of 2014
December 31, 2014 By Wait But Why
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/12/popular-posts-2014.html
FAQ, Archives & other links
https://waitbutwhy.com/wait-but-who
https://waitbutwhy.com/archive
https://waitbutwhy.com/archive
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The Shed
https://waitbutwhy.com/the-shed
Delicious Visual Map of History
February 9, 2015 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/02/delicious-visual-map-history.html
Putting Time In Perspective – UPDATED
August 22, 2013 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/putting-time-in-perspective.html
Spectacular Video Putting WWII Deaths in Perspective
June 14, 2015 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/spectacular-video-putting-wwii-deaths-perspective.html
The Death Toll Comparison Breakdown
August 5, 2013 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/the-death-toll-comparison-breakdown.html
There’s an Equal Number of People in the Blue and Red Areas
July 9, 2015 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/07/theres-an-equal-number-of-people-in-the-blue-and-red-areas.html
What If All 7.1 Billion People Moved To Tunisia?
August 13, 2013 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/what-if-all-71-billion-people-moved-to.html
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The Sun and Planet Sizes to Scale
By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/09/sun-planet-sizes-scale.html
Video Zoom-In on the Largest Image Ever Taken of Andromeda Galaxy
January 21, 2015 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/largest-image-ever-taken-andromeda-galaxy.html
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The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
January 22, 2015 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html
The AI Revolution: Our Immortality or Extinction
January 27, 2015 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html
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Elon Musk: The World’s Raddest Man
May 7, 2015 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/05/elon-musk-the-worlds-raddest-man.html
How Tesla Will Change The World
June 2, 2015 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-life.html
How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars
August 16, 2015 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-colonize-mars.html
The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Sauce
November 6, 2015 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/11/the-cook-and-the-chef-musks-secret-sauce.html
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How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)
April 11, 2018 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2018/04/picking-career.html
How to Pick Your Life Partner – Part 1
February 12, 2014 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/02/pick-life-partner.html
How to Pick Your Life Partner – Part 2
February 13, 2014 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/02/pick-life-partner-part-2.html
The Marriage Decision: Everything Forever or Nothing Ever Again
September 1, 2016 By Tim Urban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/09/marriage-decision.html
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