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The Rationalist Delusion: Why We Get Everything Wrong
Rather than talking only to people who agree with you, or collecting examples that fit your ideas, see people who contradict you, disagree with you, and put forward different ideas as a great resource for understanding the world. — Hans Rosling “Factfulness”
I have taken up playing chess in the past three years and have now played more than 6,000 games. For professional chess players, this is not a very significant number. In the beginning, I found it very difficult to respond to an e4 opening as there were so many possibilities. When you start learning the basic rules of chess, you start realizing that chess is orderly and that there are better and worse responses to e4, the most common opening.
Now, as I play chess I do not really think of responses to e4; I have learned different openings and respond quickly to the common openings. My intuitions prevail and are fairly reliable against players in my bracket. If you observe how GrandMasters play, such as Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, or…
