• Pennomi
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    91 year ago

    Feelings are SUPER important to humans because they’re a huge efficiency boost. We take everything we’ve ever learned in our lives and crunch it down into a feeling for how the world works. Then we make the vast majority of our decisions by using that “gut feeling”. Can you imagine how ridiculously inefficient it would be to have to analyze every new scenario you come across?

    The big problem today is that people lean in too hard on that idea and assume that because their feelings are right most of the time, feelings must be equivalent to truth.

    • pjhenry1216
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      121 year ago

      The problem is that the efficiency is achieved through shortcuts and biases. It’d those biases people need to be careful with.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        In other words, shortcuts and biases really just trade accuracy for speed.

        Those many cognitive biases we succumb to may be great for scenarios faced by hominids a hundred thousand years ago or more. But for sussing out truth and evaluating evidence, they’re straight caca.

    • snooggums
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      71 year ago

      Can you imagine how ridiculously inefficient it would be to have to analyze every new scenario you come across?

      I have adhd so I do not need to imagine it.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Can you imagine how ridiculously inefficient it would be to have to analyze every new scenario you come across?