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  • If the Overton Window were not inside of itself, you’d think I was crazy for writing this.
  • Is it just me, or has the Baader-Meinhof effect been popping up all over the place ever since I learned about it?
  • It’s hard to justify learning about opportunity costs when there are so many other things you could be doing with that time.
  • I don’t think the idea of being Pareto Optimal has made anyone better off without making at least one person worse off.
  • What can we infer from the fact that we find ourselves living in a world where we’ve invented the idea of “Anthropics”?
  • Everyone knows that everyone knows that everyone knows that everyone knows (and so on) what common knowledge is.
  • Ninety percent of explanations of Sturgeon’s Law are crap.
  • I would teach you about Inferential Distance, but it would take too long to explain it to you.
  • Let’s meet at the place where you think that I think that you think that I think that you think is a good place to discuss Schelling Points.
  • If you think this sentence is meta, you’re mistaken; it is one level higher than that.
  • You should use some of your time learning about new ideas, like the explore-exploit tradeoff, and the rest of your time applying ideas you already know well.
  • I wasn’t going to include this explanation of the sunk cost fallacy because it’s obviously bad, but at this point, I’ve already invested time into it.

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    This piece was first written on March 21, 2021, and first appeared on this site on March 18, 2022.

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