“I realize that if you ask people to account for “facts”, they usually spend more time finding reasons for them than finding out whether they are true…They skip over the facts but carefully deduce inferences. They normally begin thus: “How does this come about?” But does it do so? That is what they ought to be asking.” – Montaigne
Next:
- 2-1a5a Evolution doesn’t care about lifetime of each individual gene-meme carrier (its sample is beyond your own experience and any human lifetime)
- 2-1a6 ‘Incentives’ - Incentives drive (almost) everything. Understand your incentives.
Related:
- 1-1a5b4.4 Real-time calibration (i.e., recalibration) lets you adapt to the changing landscape
- 5-1b1a8 ‘Opportunity cost’ and ‘comparative advantage’ must be rooted in explanations. Never use them as ad hoc criteria.
- 5-2b4 Explanation (explicit or inexplicit) precedes both your options and choices
- 5-2b6 Theories need data
- 5-2b7 The skeptical empiricist doubts both data and theory
- Replace tools with data: