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I really enjoy the conspiracy theorists out there debunking all manner of things. But if you're familiar with how our instincts fail us, e.g., most people respond instinctivly and wrongly to the following puzzle:

“A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?”

It's ok if you get it wrong, it's because our intuitions on things like this are often wrong. I think a lot of people are trusting their gut on matters their guts were never trained to be trusted on so they come to conclusions that, if they were to spend just a little more time on it, would be obviously false.

In any case, I'm here for it, gfy yourself and have fun out there. I've got my tinfoil hat ready to deply.

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Isaac Delahaye 2mo ago

$0.05, right? 🤔

SuiGenerisJohn 2mo ago

That is the correct answer but the correct answer doesn’t matter. What’s more important is how the majority answer it wrongly when they answer without thinking.

Isaac Delahaye 2mo ago

Right. Every now and then I just want to be sure I’m thinking hard enough though 😃

SuiGenerisJohn 2mo ago

Thinking, Fast and Slow is a great book about this that’s brought up all the darn time on podcasts.

Isaac Delahaye 2mo ago

Oh yeah, I’ve seen it on the shelves multiple times. Might have to pick it up whenever I’m done reading all the books I haven’t touched yet 😬

Either way, both of us being here kinda tells me we’re thinking outside the box already.

SuiGenerisJohn 2mo ago

And, it's great to have artists like yourself here. It's a great space thanks for joining us!

Isaac Delahaye 2mo ago

🫡

𝕞ptf 2mo ago

Good puzzle, instinctively i thought 0.10, but its 0.05 + 1.05 =1.10

SuiGenerisJohn 2mo ago

Yes, exactly. It's a great illustration of how our untrained intuitions are dangerous. Slow the fuck down frens.

It's like when I'm helping a client take a deposition. Their instinct is often to engage in a conversation and I always remind them: "just listen to the question they asked you, give your self a beat and do a two mississippi, and then _just answer the question they asked you_, don't try to help them by answering a question you think they intended to ask you, make them do the work"