16 Surprising Psychology Truths - Gurwinder Bhogal - #516
Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer. Gurwinder is one of my favourite Twitter follows. He’s written yet another megathread exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social media. It's one of...
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Summary
Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer.
Gurwinder is one of my favourite Twitter follows. He’s written yet another megathread exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social media. It's one of the best things I've read this year, so I just had to bring him on.
Expect to learn how bad things can sometimes feel better than good things, why people die on the hill of opinions they've only just begun believing, why intelligence plus ideology is a nightmare, how comedy can be a troll's last line of defence, the biggest lesson I learned from Joe Rogan, why regret minimisation should be a priority, why authoritarians lose sight of rationality and much more...
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(01:20) Bespoke Bullshit
(06:35) Ideology Makes Wise People Stupid
(10:46) The Fading Affect Bias
(16:58) Naval’s Razor
(21:42) Poe’s Law
(26:48) Chris’s Biggest Insight from Joe Rogan
(33:54) The Nova Effect & Modern Complacency
(53:16) Apatheia
(1:04:23) Regret Minimisation
(1:12:36) Howard Hughes Syndrome
(1:22:33) Deferred Happiness Syndrome
(1:27:37) Does Beauty Cause Prejudices?
(1:35:43) Alder’s Razor
(1:45:56) Where to Find Gurwinder
Extra Stuff:
Check out Gurwinder's Substack - https://gurwinder.substack.com/
Follow Gurwinder on Twitter - https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal
Gurwinder's new MegaThread - https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal/status/1545510413982474253
Adam Mastroianni's post - https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/underrated-ideas-in-psychology
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