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There are also two kinds of people - those who are objective enough to tell when it happens and those who will never even see when they’re outperformed because of their cognitive biases.

I give you a 2x2x2 matrix.





Sure, but if a person can find an easier way to do their job, they’ll usually do it. Usually the bias is towards less energy expenditure.

For many people, yes. For people who have their identity invested in being the smartest person in the room, life is considerably harder.

I'm sure if we work hard enough we can add a meta-meta-cognition level. Cognition is just 2^n series of binary states right?

> I give you a 2x2x2 matrix.

That'd be a tensor, no?


A rank-3 tensor, yes. Matrices are rank-2 tensors.

God I hated tensors in grad school. Give me a Taylor series any day.

Everything that seems complicated is just a "fancy matrix".



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