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... The authors here show that readiness to cooperate between individuals from different groups corresponds to the degree of cultural similarity between those groups. This is consistent with the theory of Cultural Group Selection as an explanation for the rise of human large-scale cooperation. ...
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... Then the idea that 1999 and 2006 were driven by unsustainable bubbles, as opposed to just being healthy economic booms, prevented people from recognizing how far the US economy was below potential from 2010 to 2015. ...
... The economy was still way below potential in 2015, and it's possible to recover rapidly from a recession with appropriate macro policy. And that should cause us to re-assess not only the economy of 2011 but the economy of 2006 too. ...
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... Not all bad ideas come from the right 5/ ...
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... I have no idea. https://t.co/kFojw7CxsT This chart debunks the widely-held belief that housing construction was out of control in 2005. Housing production was actually pretty normal! ...
... In 2007, a weak fiscal and monetary response allowed spending to fall way below trend. Powell and Pelosi and Mnuchin and Biden were determined not to let that happen again in 2020. And they succeeded! https://t.co/7ZrJns0ors There are a bunch more charts here. ...
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... Or to put it another way, no sign inflation is getting entrenched 3/ ...
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... So if Newt Gingrich forced the BLS to lower the CPI as a backdoor way of cutting Social Security payments, did he force the BEA to do the same thing so it wouldn't look suspicious? ...
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... Given this apparent trend, we use the motivating example of mental time travel in humans to propose ways in which insights from each of the three theories may be combined into a unified model. ...
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... Narrative organization of ideas such as books, lectures, and talks, is excellent for the owner of those ideas to convey them to an audience. But it's not effective in enabling multidirectional exchanges of ideas in which ideas come from and go to multiple participants. ...
... We do not write each other books or give each other lectures when we need to exchange ideas. Instead, we have conversations, correspondences, tweets, comments, etc. In them, we forego structure/organization to enable smaller bits of ideas and thoughts to go freely in any direction. ...
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... Human has been organizing thoughts/ideas in story-like linear ways since the beginning of human culture. Books, talks, and lectures are all examples of such organizations. It's not the only way we convey ideas, e.g. day to day conversations usually are more or less structure-free and spontaneous. ...
... Ideas are bouncing in all directions. In the Internet age, Twitter and other social media provide new ways to perform such conversations multilaterally, but they are not well structured. ...
... The mainstream way to communicate larger groups of thoughts/ideas in a structured way remains to be the linear structure as in books, lectures, podcasts, etc. Though they have two main shortcomings 1. ...
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... This [Twitter conversation](https://twitter.com/yudapearl/status/1495128028443074561?t=E66IfwHivO5BIu3qT1dEyg&s=19) showed how difficult to actually having a group discussion on an expansive topic. I believe that the mind net can organize such interaction of ideas much better. ...
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... More specifically, a network of ideas, thoughts, propositions, observations, things that live in our minds. Imagine we can connect things in our minds with things in other people's minds. ...
... As explained by the book "Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation", being able to make connections between ideas in different minds has been critical for human innovations. ...
... To date, such connections are made through reading publications, which are very formal, linearly structured, and unilateral, or through conversations, which are casual, divergent, and rarely structured. ...
... Imagine if we have a medium that is specifically designed to facilitate connections between ideas in different minds. This medium is structured but allows easy divergence, multilateral and asynchronous. ...
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... A system that lets users record their inquiry thoughts/ideas as observations, hypotheses, and predictions (OH&P) can provide a new mode of communication and collaboration between users - they can structurally connect their atomic OH&P directly to other users' OH&P. ...
... ([This is challenging](https://www.themind.net/observations/4fcVuFGoTEa43ez-xhSAsg) when thoughts/ideas are organized in the usual narrative structure, such as books, lectures, and talks). ...
... Such a system that connects atomic ideas and thoughts between users might achieve a **digitalized collective mind**. Digitalized mind means all ideas/thoughts are digitalized, collective meaning that these ideas/thoughts are contributed by multiple users and digitally connected to each other. ...
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... The foundational idea of the End of History is inherited from Hegel - man's desire for recognition overriding other desires (mainly preservation) is something that transcends humans, something that proves man's freedom. ...
... This is an outdated view that sees humans as isolated individuals rather than members of social groups. This desire for recognition is probably a product of group competition and the recognition is about one's worth to the community in the context of fierce group competition between communities. ...
... The narrative of intragroup fighting for recognition creating the slave and master didn't exist. Without a better understanding of this desire for recognition through the lens of group competition, ideas built on top of it are flaky as well. ...
... For example, we don't know which desire is more prominent: the desire for equal recognition for each member or the desire for the recognition of the community as a whole. In modernity, the further is represented by liberal democracy while the latter by nationalism. ...
... The argument for liberal democratic being more rational is that it's the only way to reconcile competing desires for individual recognition. This is based on the assumption that individual recognition dominates the projected national recognition. ...
... It's more evident that the majority of a social group is prone to manipulation, be it religion, ideologies, etc while liberal democracy is just one of them to support elected orligarchy. And that is supported by group competition theories. ...
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... A system can be created to let users record their inquiry thoughts/ideas as observations, hypotheses, and predictions (OH&P). ...
... Thanks to the intrinsic structure, the system can digitalize these thoughts/ideas with auto connections and visualization, thus providing an automatic way to organize these thoughts/ideas. We can call this digitalized mind. ...
... The digitalized mind makes thoughts/ideas easier to consume, assess and generate new insights. ...
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