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  • Voting is identity, and yet – you can join a faction and keep a free mind

    Voting is identity, and yet – you can join a faction and keep a free mind

    We know a lot about how people think. For example, once you state a strong preference (like “I hate XXX because he’s evil”) your mind immediately goes into defensive mode. You interpret different opinions as personal attacks, and you lose the capacity to think rationally. This is called cognitive bias. Cognitive bias makes you into…

  • Do you know your default shape?

    When people rhetorically ask, “why does everyone like Taylor Swift so much,” or, “why do people fall for conspiracy theories,” they are often displaying incuriosity about the shapes of others. Take a second to be curious. — Read on usefulfictions.substack.com/p/do-you-know-your-default-shape

  • Toward Understanding e-Prime

    E-PRIME, abolishing all forms of the verb “to be,” has its roots in the field of general semantics, as presented by Alfred Korzybski in his 1933 book, Science and Sanity. And: …one can indeed write and speak without using any form of “to be,” calling this subset of the English language “E-Prime.” — Read on…

  • When we design our identities from scratch

    “There may be a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone that seeks an escape. I believe we are going to see the opposite of the context collapse of the internet today.”