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What you have read, heard, or thought of that blew or changed your mind?

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One of them is substitution bias, from "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_substitution

More or less, "instead of finding the correct answer, our brain finds the nearest, available answer."

Similar to the "because" experiment that discovered people will allow behavior if there is a reason for it, even though there is no correlation between the reason and the behavior.

"Can I go first? Because I need to copy my paper," says the woman waiting in line at the photocopy machine.

It causes errors in thinking.


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You don't expect to wake up tomorrow being me, but if you would, how would you know? What if we are changing places every night?


"Buddhism is for losers and those who will die one day."

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