"Now, how do you know if your stupid theory is wrong? Okay, A:
It fails. And you're hurt. Pain tells you, pragmatically: 'your theory was wrong!'
So, that's why you should pay attention to your own pain: because your suffering is a indication that you still have things to learn - and maybe the suffering of other people, is also that. Maybe something unexpected or unpredictable happens when you're laying out your plan and then the anomalous manifests itself, the unexpected or Chaos, and then you get anxious. Well, anxiety is an indication that your plan - your arrow didn't fly to its mark, so you aimed wrong, and that might mean a small error, you know?, maybe a tiny adjustment of your bow, or it might mean [that] you just don't what a hell you're doing at all and everything is lost; and so anxiety tells if your theory is wrong. And then other people tell you that - and that's why you want to surround yourself with other people, because you distribute your cognitive resor-- you- you-- you distribute your problems to the cognitive resources of the social group, that's what we do when we price things, right?, everyone votes on the price of something because it's so difficult-- because the price of something has to be established in relationship to the price of everything else and that's always in flux and so it's computationally impossible problem and so we outsource it to the market, witch is the free cognitive decision of millions of people and that's how we determinate price. And so one of the things you do, to make sure that you're not any stupider than you have to be (blind, ignorant, biased and all of that), is you surround yourself with other people, and you try to treat them well enough so they can tolerate you, and then every time that you do something stupid, because one of your theories is- is vague, or incomplete, or wrong, or biased or you're willfully blind, then they slap you on the side of the head. They ignore you because you're boring, they don't laugh at your jokes because they're stupid, they- they are irritated at your actions you're not taking your own long-term interests or the interests of other people into account. And so, you have pain, you have anxiety; you have the reward of sucess, that- that's- that's a positive indicator that your theory's ok; and then you have the reactions of everyone else. And if you're clued-in you pay attention to all of those things, and you try to update your- your order, which is your perceptions, you try to update your order constantly as a consequence of being humble in the face of your errors which is why humility is the precondition for learning and why is one of the highest moral virtues. [...]"
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