3-1c3c4 'Tendency to distort due to liking or disliking' - Never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.” – Seneca

“Be careful not to rashly refuse to learn from others.” – Cato the Elder

“You’re never as bad as you think you are when you’re down, and you’re never as good as you think you are when you’re up.” – Joe Paterno

Next:

• 3-1c3c4a Person who finds profound new theories often holds onto beliefs that contradict them
• 3-1c3c4.1 It’s easy to push a really good idea to wretched excess
• 3-1c3c5 Best of all is when you can say they would’ve found this had they taken their own ideas seriously
• 3-1c3c6 Nerds have an advantage in doing great work because they expend little effort on seeming anything

Related:

• 6-3b2f Composability implies compounding

  • 6-3b2d Composability is software’s version of compounding interest-effect, because composability saving keystrokes implies compounding

• 9-4b3e2 Concise explanations make it easier to criticize and combine ideas

  • 1-2f1b1 Digital system is composable
    • 9-4b3c Your epistemology has to be digital, that is, error-correctable

• QUE5 - Who has the right answer but I ignore because they’re inarticulate. Who do I listen to who is in essence just good marketing.

• 2-1a6b ‘Pavlovian association’ & ‘Social proof’ - Understand the arbitrary association formed within your culture. There are no pure indexes for humans.

  • 1-2f1a Error-correction is the beginning of infinity. All jumps to universality occur in digital systems.

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• 5-1b4c4 Pay attention to your ‘taboos’ - If there is something you fear unconsciously, you have to face it
  • 1-1c6a1a Pay attention to what can’t be said (e.g., taboos)
    • 4-1d0 Look at the whole of conversations, including how things are being said as well as what’s not being said (e.g., taboos)

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• 3-1d7a ‘Bottlenecks’ - Don’t hate them. Rather, use them creatively.
• 2-1a5 ‘Sampling’ - Increase your sample size with QUALITY data
• 2-1a1a8 ‘Tendency to overestimate consistency of behavior’ - Behavior of others are often not innate-intentional but situational
• 2-3c ‘Surface area’ - Manage your exposure to volatilities
• 2-1a1a1b ‘Hanlon’s razor’ - We (they) are dumber and thus less ill-intent than we think we (they) are
• 2-1a1a1 ‘Falsification (confirmation) bias’ - Always try to falsify your theory. Don’t pick up similar maps.