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Cumulative Culture: Humanity's success is due not to our individual IQs but to our culture, which stockpiles our best ideas for posterity so they compound across generations. The ideas we adopt from society are often far older than us, and far wiser.
My Peoples, the Time Has...
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Woozle Effect: An article makes a claim without evidence, is then cited by another, which is cited by another, and so on, until the range of citations creates the impression that the claim has evidence, when really all articles are citing the same uncorroborated source.
MEGATHREAD TIME: In 40 T...
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«Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking.» Carl Sagan
The Great Mental Models
Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien
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