- Is the direction of causality A to B or B to A?
- There is a situation of “Rolling Snowball” and “Positive feedback” that strengthens each other in both directions of A⇄B instead of either one.
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- Depending on whether you observed A or B first, the other one appears to be the cause.
- So different people have different opinions.
- The initial reason for the seriousness of the situation caused by this positive feedback could be very trivial or just luck
- So it’s hard to think of it as a “cause”.
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When I teach things to people who are not very smart, they argue with me like, “No, I don’t think so.
- You’re “too dumb to understand and accept explanations that contradict your preconceived notions.”
- ‘I lost the opportunity to train myself to think because I couldn’t accept explanations that contradicted my preconceived notions, so I became dumb?’
- →Which is it? may be [choosing the wrong two options
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