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Take the Clearpill - Erik Torenberg

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Housekeeping: I’ve been interested in reputation lately. Last week we launched VC investor reviews (LP next!) and have over 300 so far. Today we launched reviews for startup service providers and SaaS tools (please upvote/leave a review). We’re also working on company reviews too, please leave one here. To be determined on how this all fits together. :) In previous posts we discussed how beliefs are not about being accurate, but about establishing and cementing your membership to your desired tribe. To recap, we model people as rational actors deriving their beliefs from first principles, but if anything, most of human rationality is not used to create belief systems, but rather to come up with arguments to rationalize opinions the subconscious brain has already made. People don’t even have beliefs per se, separate from the current moment and what their peers think. The idea of “belief” itself is a misnomer. Implied in “belief” is an individual, first-principles, derivation process of

Take the Clearpill Opt out of politics you can't influence Erik Torenberg Dec 14, 2023 47 14 9 Share Housekeeping: I’ve been interested in reputation lately. Last week we launched VC investor reviews ( LP next! ) and have over 300 so far. Today we launched reviews for startup service providers and SaaS tools (please upvote /leave a review). We’re also working on company reviews too, please leave one here . To be determined on how this all fits together. :) In previous posts we discussed how beliefs are not about being accurate, but about establishing and cementing your membership to your desir

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