Tradition is smarter than you are

If rational thought is not the key to our success, what is?

Tradition is smarter than you are

If rational thought is not the key to our success, what is?

https://scholars-stage.org/tradition-is-smarter-than-you-are/

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tradition is just rational thought on evolutionary timescales

The only problem is externality pricing.

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But if that were true, wouldn’t people retain the understanding of why they do certain traditions, which they often seem to not? 🤔

If ppl were rational.

But we love hearing good stories more than anything else

I think they're the same process. Not that they share the same content.

I think they're the same process. Not that they share the same content. https://warpcast.com/nor/0xff8df50c

I think that's why we forget. I see forgetting as a gift to some extent. It's the way of discovering new local maximums because we forget where we are and we start exploring again. Obviously we don't forget everything, like a perfect delete, but we forget some details.