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Now a bias is a way in which we systematically get things wrong, ways in which we miscalculate, misjudge, distort reality, or see what we want to see, and the bias I'm talking about works like this: Confront someone with the fact that they are going to die and they will believe just about any story that tells them it isn't true and they can, instead, live forever, even if it means taking the existential elevator.
Something goes wrong unexpectedly.
And finally one day, I woke up and I thought perhaps I'd had a stroke, because I lay in bed completely frozen, looking at the telephone, thinking, "Something is wrong and I should call for help," and I couldn't reach out my arm and pick up the phone and dial.
Our daughters have learned to measure their worth by the wrong scale.
And we started thinking about all the different things that could go wrong.
There are errors everywhere, errors in the document, it's the wrong name of the captain, some of the boats never actually took to sea.
And also, when things go wrong, we try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.
It is totally wrong.
If they get it wrong, they can get instant feedback.
They're being subjective, and we know what happens with subjective decision making, which is that we are often wrong.
And maybe that means that there's something bad or wrong about me."
And this got me thinking, God, I wish there was a way that I could change this, that could I have my voice heard by Hasbro so I could ask them and tell them what they were doing wrong and ask them to change it.
Sadness, for example, signals to the group that something’s wrong.
Well I'd say, "You're looking at the wrong problems."
I can appreciate that there is estimation risk in this, but since this is based on widespread scientific consensus, the odds that it's not completely wrong are better than the odds that our house will burn down or we'll get in a car accident.
So following that conversation with my daughter, and seeing the absence of inflation in the face of money-printing, and knowing that international aid payments were falling at just the wrong time, this made me wonder: Could we match but just on a much grander scale?
It's the idea that if you love your husband or wife but you still are attracted to other people, there's something wrong with you, there's something wrong with your marriage, something wrong with your partner.
Experiments were all wrong.
The experiments had to be wrong, and they were.
That's wrong because the theory is quantum mechanical.
You've heard a lot of wrong things about it anyway.
There are even movies about it with a lot of wrong stuff.
Because basically, kids look about the same, each sex, until they go through puberty, at which point, if you feel you're in the wrong sex, you feel like Pinocchio becoming a donkey.
Few of us today feel any need to put forth a rigorous philosophical argument as to why slavery is wrong or public hangings or beating children.
By now, these things just feel wrong.
SP: Are you saying that people needed a step-by-step argument to grasp why something might be a wee bit wrong with burning heretics at the stake?
I mean, look, if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to worry about.
What's wrong with that point of view?
A lot of the conversation since then has been along the lines that actually George Orwell got it wrong.
And we don't just practice things going right, we practice things going wrong all the time, so that you are constantly walking through those spiderwebs.
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