Narrative Fallacy
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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS), also known as Todd's syndrome or dysmetropsia, is a neurological disorder that distorts perception. People with this syndrome may experience distortions in their visual perception of objects, such as appearing smaller (micropsia) or larger (macropsia), or appearing to be closer (pelopsia) or farther (teleopsia) than they are. Distortion may also occur for sense
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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS), also known as Todd's syndrome or dysmetropsia, is a neurological disorder that distorts perception. People with this syndrome may experience distortions in their v
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The human brain abhors randomness and tends to weave noisy events into causal stories (post-hoc rationalization) to gain a sense of control and explainability. Taleb points out that this leads us to underestimate luck, overestimate explainability, and mispredict the future.
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