Monday, December 19, 2022

Cold comfort

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense
        rests on a secure foundation:
                our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

                        Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

 

 

 

 

 




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