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*fires up the twitter* There is an entire shadow world hiding in plain sight. Learning about this I think was more mind-boggling than learning about the scale and scope of the universe. It’s like social dark matter. Most people don’t see it and many never will https://t.co/5Qq3BEDJNP
This is less “your father is secretly a government spy” and more “most of what you think you know about your father is likely coloured by the father-child relationship + most people who tell you things about him mostly filter their thoughts with your relationship in mind” https://t.co/zCPq4LytG8
Your personal experiences make up <0.0001% of what’s happened in the world but 80% of how you think the world works. When experiencing a fraction of what’s out there but using that to explain everything you expect to happen, you'll be disappointed & confused by others’ decisions.
“No one would listen” consider also how people were joking-not-joking about Harvey Weinstein for decades This is one of those “if you think you’ve wrapped your head around the full magnitude of what’s going on, you’re wrong” type things https://t.co/gDZB8J3dby
Kotoku Wamura – mocked for worrying about tsunami, validated 25yrs after death Harry Markopolis, knew what Madoff was doing. Wrote book titled "No One Would Listen" Barry Marshall, ridiculed for his accurate belief that peptic ulcers caused by bacteria https://t.co/SB6hxxy8tN
Another way of trying to think about this: a lot of wild Black Swan type events are only shocking and surprising because of the false expectations people have about reality. The “dark matter” is everything between those expectations and reality. It’s dark because we don’t see it https://t.co/as8TJFNQB9
If reality seems unrealistic, it’s because you were holding on to a false idea about how reality is. Reality isn’t unrealistic; your expectations were Reality isn’t unrealistic, your expectations were Reality isn’t unrealistic, your expectations were Reality isn’t unrealisti https://t.co/Ygl39kad2Z
All master persuaders know this https://t.co/0plz76fTCe
“Divorced from reality” is an interesting and revealing choice of phrase. It’s not “true reality” since that’s literally whatever happens. It’s “expected reality”. It’s discovering that the map is not the territory https://t.co/nQ7rGaSPr6
the truth I hate the most is probably "people who are really knowledgeable are publicly silent about the juiciest stuff, because the upside to talking about it publicly is minimal, and the downside potentially catastrophic" really sucks for smart kids in shitty social graphs
Being sensitive and kind has made me *significantly* smarter, because it’s given me access to information and perspectives that people actively avoid sharing publicly. I know so much shit that I can’t quite talk about (because I don’t have permission to say it)
my answer to peter thiel's "what important truth do very few people agree with you on" is kind of meta – that truth itself, in practice, apart from the hard sciences, is ~ a political concept. truth is fashion, truth is kayfabe, truth is intersubjective https://t.co/wnLvKkCgWY