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This image terrifies me.

In one glance it explains how even the most intelligent, trustworthy, honest humans are completely deranged.
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The Tim 1y ago

This isn’t terrifying, it’s fascinating!

“Bias” is just the name for one side of the coin. The other side is “encoding, simplifying and understanding” - we use all these techniques to process the world around us and filter out noise. Almost all of it happens subconsciously, so being aware of what’s going on inside our head (and others) is a superpower!

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Bacchus 1y ago

I would say it's about semiotics as a mean to overcome Shannon capacity theorem limitation, but it's lossy by default (that's the whole point!). Mind the difference between "simplifying" ("naming", as a matter of fact) and "understanding". From slightly different angle, it's an old good nominalism vs. realism debate.

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The Tim 1y ago

👆 what he said