Concepts
The irreducible epistemic atoms underlying the curriculum. 4,828 atoms across 8 types
Emotional Hijacking of Judgment
The amygdala evaluates emotional significance of stimuli before conscious awareness, and humans systematically use these pre-conscious emotional evaluations as heuristic substitutes for complex cognitive judgments, producing systematic distortions in probability and severity assessments.
Systematic Overconfidence Taxonomy
Humans exhibit systematic overconfidence across domains, with subjective confidence consistently exceeding objective accuracy in three distinct forms—overestimation of absolute performance, overplacement relative to others, and overprecision of confidence intervals—that behave differently across task difficulty levels.
Emotion as Systematic Cognitive Modulator
Emotional states systematically distort perception and judgment in specific, predictable directions (fear increases perceived uncertainty and threat while decreasing control; anger does the opposite), serving as necessary somatic markers that guide attention and activate state-dependent memory networks rather than mere sources of error.
Availability Heuristic Mechanism
People judge frequency and probability based on the subjective ease of mentally retrieving examples rather than the content count of retrieved instances, using retrieval fluency as a proxy for actual frequency in the world.
AI generates inputs, you synthesize judgment — outsourcing…
When using AI systems, maintain explicit separation between input generation (AI-assisted) and judgment synthesis (human-retained), because outsourcing the integration function constitutes epistemic abdication regardless of input quality.