- reality is full of details you don’t see immediately
- important details are basically invisible, but when you notice them they become integral part of your intuitive model of the world —> something like Hindsight Bias, after the outcome we believe we knew it all along and cannot recall our prior belifs
- easy to get stuck in your way of thinking due to invisible details and transparent (obvious) details
- how to improve:
- seek detail you would not normally notice about the world
- when you hear arguments that feel wrong, try to notice what details seem important to them and why
See also
- Hindsight Bias, after the outcome we believe we knew it all along and cannot recall our prior belifs — the closest neighbour: once you notice a detail, you can’t remember not knowing it; hindsight bias is what happens after the invisible becomes obvious
- Il Cervello è Progettato per Essere Efficiente non Accurato — the brain skips invisible details because processing everything is expensive; efficiency over accuracy is why the details stay invisible in the first place
- Non possiamo eliminare i bias, possiamo solo riconoscere le situazioni a rischio — the practical response: you can’t see all the details at once, but you can learn to seek them deliberately in high-stakes situations
- La Crescita è un Processo Iterativo senza Fine — noticing a new detail updates your model from wrong to less wrong; the invisible-then-obvious pattern is the unit of iteration in learning
- On the symbiosis of remembering, forgetting, and learning — invisible details have low retrieval strength; once noticed and connected to existing knowledge, storage strength grows and they become permanently visible