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Comment author: buybuydandavis 10 November 2014 02:49:55AM 0 points [-]

Vigilance + Availability Bias = Fucking Yourself If you're always looking for the next problem, you'll experience a world much worse than the real one, and act more appropriately for that world, than the real world.

Jonathan Haidt's various moral modalities, and the different weightings people put on them. If you take the idea seriously, that people are relying on fundamentally different algorithmic processes for their choices, all sorts of things make sense very quickly. I apply the same idea to truth modalities, and many of the mysteries of the world dissolve.

Evolutionary Theory applied to Organizational Ecology What are the rules, who are the actors, and what are their interests? What are the different possible strategies in that ecology, which ones benefit an actor, and which ones cost an actor? The behavior of people in an org will conform to the organizational ecology, not to their preferences for behavior.