Tim Urban

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And this goes along with the high rung.
So high rung and low rung thinking is individual.
So I was talking about what's going on in your head, but this is very connected to the social scene around us.
And so groups will do high rung and low rung thinking together.
So an echo chamber to me is a collaborative low rung thinking.
It's a culture where the cool, it's based around a sacred set of ideas.
And it's the coolest thing you can do in an echo chamber culture is talk about how great the sacred ideas are and how bad and evil and stupid and wrong the people are who have the other views.
And it's quite boring.
You know, it's quite boring.
You know, it's very hard to learn.
And changing your mind is not cool in an echo chamber culture.
It makes you seem wishy-washy.
It makes you seem like, you know, like you're waffling and you're flip-flopping or whatever.
Showing conviction about the sacred ideas in echo chamber culture is awesome.
If you're just like, you know, obviously this makes you seem smart while being, you know, humble makes you seem dumb.
So now flip all of those things on their heads.
And you have an, you have the opposite, which is idea lab culture, which is collaborative high rung thinking.
It's collaborative truth finding.
But it's also just, it's just a totally different vibe.
It's,
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