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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI

Naive realism

the pervasive cognitive distortion characterized by three interlocking assumptions - that one perceives events as they actually are (transparent window belief), that rational people given same information will reach same conclusions (shared reality expectation), and that disagreement indicates others are uninformed, irrational, or biased (external attribution bias) - which protects all other biases from examination by making the belief in objective perception feel like common sense