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Cognitive biases are fascinating, so I really enjoyed this.

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Thank you, Melanie! And - they really are. I was nerding out *so hard* with the reading on this.

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Not the dress again! I could never get it to switch colors for me.

Great piece. I'm reminded of Robert Wright's Non-Zero Newsletter and his project on cognitive empathy. How to enact all of this at large scale is something that, encouragingly, many people seem to be working on. Though I'm not sure it's scalable, but still very worthy.

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Oh wow. This one? https://mobile.twitter.com/NonzeroNews/status/1396832408670978057 Thank you! Will dive in. And yeah - like the challenges of climate change, learning what to do about it is going to be, by far, the easier task compared to actually getting it done.

I'm hopeful that a lot of smart people are at work, as you say, including people who aren't afraid to subvert blackhat tactics for a good cause, like the outrageous sneakiness of this ad campaign from a decade ago: https://vimeo.com/35758683

Thanks for the kind words, Antonia. (Praise from the praiseworthy indeed.)

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Yes! He has a Substack (of course).

That ad campaign is genius.

Hey, I'm glad we reconnected!

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Me too. :)

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:)

Forgot the link: https://nonzero.substack.com

I don't know if I'll continue subscribing to that one after a year, but some of the conversations have been interesting.

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