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Paulo Henrique Lemos in Up to a Point

Aug 22, 2017

On art, confidence and doing it yourself

We didn’t have the money to go to concerts, but before Robert left the Fillmore he got me a pass to see the Doors. Janet and I had devoured their first album and I felt almost guilty seeing them without her. But I had a strange reaction watching Jim Morrison…

Paulo Henrique Lemos in Up to a Point

Aug 18, 2017

On the human mind, violence and civilization

The human mind tends to estimate the probability of an event from the ease with which it can recall examples, and scenes of carnage are more likely to be beamed into our homes and burned into our memories than footage of people dying of old age.

Paulo Henrique Lemos in Up to a Point

Aug 23, 2017

On labels, bias and intellectual growth

Labels are hard. The more strongly we feel attached to them, the more prone we are to confirmation bias, etc., and that’s intellectually stultifying. If you’re open to the world, and new evidence, your views should be changing all the time. Intellectual growth…

Paulo Henrique Lemos in Up to a Point

Aug 31, 2017

On dissent and taboo subjects

But in shutting down its political enemies, the left has also shut down its own internal dissenters, who have always made the left intellectually vibrant. These are the people who keep the ideology from becoming fossilized because they force everyone to constantly rethink…

July 2017

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