[krona]

> If you go back, like, 400 years ago, it never would have occurred to anybody to be introspective

Dunno, Shakespeare died 410 years ago and soliloquies on internal moral dilemmas and emotional states in Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet are a cornerstone of those plays.

[christophilus]

Yeah. I'd invert his assumption. Any reading of history shows a lot of introspection. Read the writings of everyday soldiers in the Civil War. Read any writings from any of the Catholic thinkers of the last 2000 years. Read the Greeks and Romans. Marcus Aurelius was exceptional in his quality, but not in his direction. There are so many such examples throughout history that I think it would be much harder to examples of the lack of introspection.

If anything, I think the lack of introspection is a mostly modern phenomenon.

[tolciho]

Buddhists really should get in on the introspective thing one of these years.

[reedf1]

And homer and the entire corpus of greek plays.

[tim333]

The unexamined life is not worth living ~ 400 BC

I imagine Andreessen was kind of trolling?

[mc32]

Isn’t introspection a necessary ingredient to form morals?

[kelseyfrog]

Nesbit and Wilson(1977)[1] suggest that we have little or no direct intro-spective access to higher order cognitive processes.

Most of our behaviors are a result of System I thinking and most of our moral rationalizations exist as System II thinking. It's extremely difficult to do what we feel is wrong so it's easier to intellectually synthesize a frame where we're morally correct than force ourselves to act against our possibly wrong intuitions.

1. https://home.csulb.edu/~cwallis/382/readings/482/nisbett%20s...

[eudamoniac]

The quote is so obviously idiotic that I'd be shocked if it weren't quoted out of context entirely for clickbait. That being said I am not going to find and listen to that podcast to find out.