Second-Level Thinking

Like any tool, our natural cognitive abilities can be used for good or ill. How can we find the line when it comes to "theory of mind"?

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Your levels of thinking can be adjusted with intention. Second-level thinking is deliberate: it's about using mental models and probability systems to determine the most favourable decision.

“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real,” Iris Murdoch wrote in her superb investigation of the parallels between art and morality.

It feels urgent because it is. But by the time the train is running away, it might be too late. The better strategy is to not sign up for trains that are likely to run away.