Superficiality

missing essentials

Oversimplification
simplemindedness

ignoring the important

We are tempted...

because we can easily convince ourselves that our wondrous wishes are true if we simply ignore the evidence that they are not. (We feed on PAP.)

Think positive!

	Accentuate the positive
		Eliminate the negative.
Ignore what you don't like	Imagine with real horsepower		Don't mess around with Mr Inbetween.
		Live in your dream world.

Smoke Dreams Dreams Pipe Dreams

007
License to Kill

Astrology
Solve all your problems!

.......

We easily fall into the trap...

because dealing with more than a single thing at a time is much more difficult.

We need a lot of "fourth-level" abstractions to avoid The Singles.

The Singles
Herpes simpletonisus
A whole zoo of oversimplifications

Single purpose	Single parameter
	Single -minded	Egocentrism (Single person society)
Mono(single) chromatic vision	Single cause
	Single effect	single-component measures

nevertheless...
Oversimplify, and watch your odds of success go

down . . .down . . . down . . . down . . . down . . . down . . . down . . .

Understand intelligence
beyond information and toward tensor

"Somepeoplearebrighterthanothers"

Putting people in their place
the wrong way

Human intelligence has many dimensions

Powerful tools	that often gather dust in the attics of our minds
Installation	of mental software that can improve your odds.
Hyperlinking Thinking	Discover the "obvious yet unobserved."

Ask
How many really important things did we miss?

None? A few? Some? Many? Most? All?

"Doctors recommend Maculatum Lab's new drug Conimacrad for your intractable indigestion."

missed The opinions of all the other doctors in the world. Only the two doctors who work for Maculatum recommend that worthless and dangerous stuff.

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Look out for the traps of propaganda and advertising.
They might be fatal.
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