Thanks to you again for that series.

Reading Taleb much less so because he simply reinforced what I already knew – Taleb’s writing contributing to my confirmation bias would be ironic if I wanted to misuse the word.

IME “Disillusionment with conventional views seems to me to be a much rarer experience than falling [ever further] under the spell of conventional ideas.” The cognitive load and material/political cost of swimming against the tide (of whichever particular set of conventional ideas an individual has adopted) increases with age, whereas somehow we become more and more adept at ignoring contradictory information. In proper Orwellian fashion, almost all the ignoring happens subconsciously, of course.