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Narrative Fallacy

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Blog posts

Tell your Anti-Story by Robin Hanson
The Bad Guy Bias by Robin Hanson
Missing the Trees for the Forest by Yvain
Why You're Stuck in a Narrative by hegemonicon

External Links

Tyler Cowen on Stories (transcript)
Systems and Stories by Katja Grace
Living in the Epilogue: Social Policy as Palliative Care by Sister Y

See also

Privileging the hypothesis, Positive bias
Mind-killer
Near/far thinking
Hindsight bias
Fake simplicity

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Posts tagged Narrative Fallacy

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88Missing the Trees for the Forest

Scott Alexander

17y

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46Why You're Stuck in a Narrative

[anonymous]17y

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44Conspiracy Theories as Agency Fictions

[anonymous]14y

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30Bayesianism for humans: prosaic priors

11y

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16Heuristic: How does it sound in a movie?

13y

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10Andrew Gelman on "the rhetorical power of anecdotes"

[anonymous]14y

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9Fiction Considered Harmful

10y

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