The problem is not that we disagree. It's how we disagree — and how tribal instincts corrupt the mechanisms that should resolve disagreement.
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Mind and Society
On how individual cognitive tendencies — tribalism, the typical mind fallacy, identity — scale into social dysfunction, and what convergence between ancient wisdom and modern science suggests about human nature.
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Assuming other people's minds work more like yours than they actually do. One of the most consistent errors in human reasoning.
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Identity politics is a disease. The people infected are patients. The distinction between the pathogen and its carrier matters.
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Old wisdom and new science keep arriving at the same place from different directions. This is not coincidence.