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The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in

The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson
2018
T3 407 pages · about 6h 47m to read Open Librarygoodreads

Hanson and Simler make the most provocative claim in this list: that self-deception is not a flaw but an adaptive strategy — we hide our real motives from ourselves so we can more convincingly hide them from others. If true, the entire bias-correction project has a ceiling. This book belongs at the end so it reframes everything before it.

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