And we all defend our investments. Because our conceptual investments – especial

And we all defend our investments. Because our conceptual investments – especially if they are error loaded – form a map of the conceptual world we cannot travel through life without.

So loss aversion kicks in and we defend our priors.


Source date (UTC): 2020-03-29 13:51:38 UTC

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@LLaddon I’m sure JF is a good researcher, but the purpose of learning philosophy is developing a skill in how not to err. After that you need to know enough fields not to err. Knowing math, physics, cog sci, economics, law, and history is hard. … So people rarely learn not to err.

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