Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedYuval Noah Harari: belief
17 Jul 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies
“If I approach a problem with some preconceived idea or solution and then try to impose it on the problem, and just find confirmation bias, just find the evidence that supports my view, this is easy for the mind to do.”
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- Speaker
- Yuval Noah Harari
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 17 Jul 2023
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…To books over Twitter. Yes, books over Twitter, definitely. And then when I encounter a problem, a difficult intellectual problem, then I let the problem lead me where it goes and not where I want it to go. If I approach a problem with some preconceived idea or solution and then try to impose it on the problem, and just find confirmation bias, just find the evidence that supports my view, this is easy for the mind to do. And you don’t learn anything new. Do you take notes? Do you start to concretize your thoughts on paper?…
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