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Shane Parrish on the conversations we have with ourselves — and how the quality of those internal dialogues quietly shapes the quality of everything we do.
The domains where rationality matters are domains where information is scarce, and the common wisdom of people around you is inadequate.
Rationality is for novel problems. On settled questions, copying consensus is faster and equally correct. The mistake is treating that as the whole game.
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