An experimental personal conceptual knowledgebase.
A blog-based commonplace book.
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05, 2010
Food = Drug
Most frequently taken
3
05, 2010
We can only create conditions for growth
Growth occurs on its own and cannot be forced, only [...]
2
02, 2010
availability bias
tendency to overestimate that which we can easily draw examples [...]
27
10, 2009
Why – What – How – Who in Recursive Policy Hierarchies
WHY: Normative (recursive parent)WHAT: Policy (current level)HOW: Procedure (recursive child)WHO: [...]
20
02, 2009
Confirmation bias
Human propensity to look for evidence supporting a theory rather [...]
20
02, 2009
Round-trip error
Humans tend to conflate statements of the form, "no evidence [...]
13
02, 2009
Narrative fallacy
Cognitive vulnerability to stories because of need to bind facts [...]
13
02, 2009
Post hoc rationalization
After the fact explanation;Example: psychological experiment where women given 12 [...]
30
01, 2009
dukkha
suffering, unsatisfactoriness, or misery; directly translated, "stuck like a potter’s [...]
17
09, 2007
Role of/dealing with (negative) emotions
Negative emotions are like alarm clocks: their purpose is to [...]