The knowledge illusion

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1. dborehamApr 2024
   Recommend reading the book "The Knowledge Illusion". People believe text in a larger font, for example. Taller people are more trusted. Your brain is not doing what it tells you it's doing.
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2. dborehamApr 2024
   Again, if this kind of thing surprises you, read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Illusion-Never-Think-Alone/... The human brain is just a fancy ChatGPT with an internal UI that fools itself into believing it is more logical/smart than it actually is.
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3. HDMI_CableJan 2021
   There's a pretty good book on this topic too: The Knowledge Illusion by Steven Sloman and Phillip Fernbach. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30780235

   Also, does it annoy anyone else that Elon Musk is always considered the pinnacle of intelligence even though there are thousands of scientists out there that probably beat him for the #1 spot?

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4. rocgfNov 2018
   Know that feeling when you learn a new word and then you see it everywhere?

   Well, that's a bit how I feel now that I am reading The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone, by Philip Fernbach and Steven A. Sloman. It's a book around the topic of this post. Might be of interest to whoever finds this topic appealing.

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5. jodooshiApr 2017
   > ...our intelligence resides not in individual brains but in the collective mind. To function, individuals rely not only on knowledge that is stored within our skulls but also on knowledge stored elsewhere, be it in our bodies, in the environment or especially in other people. Put together, human thought is incredibly impressive, but at its deepest level it never belongs to any individual alone. [1]

   [1] The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Illusion-Never-Think-Alone/...

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