A lot of apparent stupidity is actually smart people being maliciously lazy. It’s like selective amnesia but for reasoning. You…
A lot of apparent stupidity is actually smart people being maliciously lazy. It’s like selective amnesia but for reasoning. You think fewer steps ahead when you suspect you might arrive at a personally inconvenient truth. Motivated non-reasoning. Plausible inferential deniability
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) July 9, 2018