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The observation of "foxes" and "hedgehogs" is interesting to me. If it's to be believed, trepidatious granular investigation beats blanket ideological perceptio
by JetAlone 5y ago
The observation of "foxes" and "hedgehogs" is interesting to me. If it's to be believed, trepidatious granular investigation beats blanket ideological perception in predictive power... I think we're tempted to use our broad lenses to predict things, because we find our worldviews can help us decide how to live in the chaos of our world. The sheer relief of believing "Oh, what I have to do is X," or "I sincerely think the world would be better if Y" gets overextended to fuel a source of pathological comfort. We can lose the present context in it, even if our ideology is actually broadly quite correct.
- bckr 5y ago> because we find our worldviews can help us decide how to live in the chaos of our world Simple answers conserve brain power. I think we can keep using simple answers, we just have to apply different simple answers to different situations. Maybe one way we can do this is to collect simple principles in big lists and, when we feel like we might need to change our perspective on something, look through our list and choose a hypothetical principle to apply. This is basically the I Ching / Book of Proverbs, but you have to compile it yourself.