Meditations and Learnings

Meditations and Learnings

G.I. Joe Fallacy



This is a meta fallacy because it describes the way in which knowing is not half the battle. Awareness of our innate irrationality is often not enough to counteract these tendencies and we need tools to defend against our own biases. We accept other physical limitations, designing glasses and contact lenses for sight, or hearing aids for sound, and so we should adopt a similar approach to our psychological impairments.