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I always get a chuckle when I see this list. Other than literacy and arithmetic, it's like the curriculum from kindergarten to fourth grade.


I think it's a good reminder that there are some things you believe that are not true.

Some things I believe, some things you believe.

No matter how informed or educated or logical we believe ourselves to be.

It's something to keep in mind.


I think just about everything anyone believes is false, or at least arbitrary and unfounded. We lack the frameworks to examine the vast majority of things that determine our decisions, and are thus de facto beliefs.


I would chuckle, but I don't when I hear things like 20 percent of Americans are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level.




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