So, disaster postponed. But just reading this improved my mood, slightly. It’s interesting how easy it is to cling to little bits of sort-of good news like this. We humans are notoriously irrational and prone to biases (like optimism). Which then begs the question: what if the cumulative effect of these micro-tidbits of good news is to help us to… continue doing almost nothing about it all?
So, disaster postponed. But just reading this improved my mood, slightly. It’s interesting how easy it is to cling to little bits of sort-of good news like this. We humans are notoriously irrational and prone to biases (like optimism). Which then begs the question: what if the cumulative effect of these micro-tidbits of good news is to help us to… continue doing almost nothing about it all?
Not really, see here
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