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by jakobegger
2481 days ago
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I think you are giving people too much credit. I feel like most of the time the mental model only comes after the fact, in an attemp to rationalize whatever ridiculous things people do. Look at people who flock to homeopathy, or those who buy "water vitalisation" devices, or other ridiculous gimmicks. There's no rational reason why people would come up with ridiculous things like that. Unless you look at it from an evolutionary perspective. These ridiculous ideas are just people randomly exploring the search space, and natural selection picks the ones who got something right. |
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What are you talking about? Those things absolutely have a model behind them. It's an incredibly bad model that doesn't stand up to any serious scrutiny, but it is a model none the less.
> These ridiculous ideas are just people randomly exploring the search space, and natural selection picks the ones who got something right.
I think you might be giving the word "model" too much weight. It doesn't have to be a mathematical proof or anything. "God won't let me die because I'm too pretty" is a model.