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Modern WisdomJun 13, 2022

#486 - Gurwinder Bhogal - 14 Mental Models To Understand Human Nature

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The consequences of widespread lying and its impact on belief and action.

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Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer. Gurwinder is one of my favourite Twitter follows. He’s written another monstrous thread exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social media. It's one of the best things I've read this year, so I just had to bring him on. Expect to learn why stupidity is more dangerous than evil, why most content has to appeal to midwits, why political debates are essentially mass-scaled ventriloquizism, how lower stakes lead to more vicious arguments, why the word retard is a strange choice as an unspeakable slur, why being a mess is more likeable than being perfect and much more…
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Key quote: The consequences of widespread lying and its impact on belief and action.
The host briefly mentions Hannah Arendt's 'The Origins of Totalitarianism' to highlight the dangers of deception in society. This reference serves to underscore the importance of truth in maintaining democratic values.
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