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Irene Zion's avatar

Happy to hear the repetitions were a glitch and I hadn’t missed some deeper meaning.

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Austin Chen's avatar

Good writeup - although it looks like the text got duplicated somehow?

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Trevor Klee's avatar

Thanks, and looks like you're right :/ . Just fixed it.

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Adam's avatar

the joke is still duplicated, I just refreshed (maybe substack has a caching bug, who knows)

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Trevor Klee's avatar

No longer duplicated on my end...

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Andy Stein's avatar

This topic is so close to my heart and I agree 100%. I've given talks on this effect and then I share some tools that are meant to help shine lights in the darkness, by helping people structure how they think about uncertainty. The link below starts the talk about 8 mins in, at the Light Switch effect section.

https://youtu.be/Kfegz0BQ_ok?t=479

If you just want a quick look at the slides rather than a YouTube video, they are here.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YlNvRkbrviEuW_CQcFYwuUaGiTjP32ht/view

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