People store and assimilate information. Whenever we pass a bad driver on the road, we turn and look. We may not memorize the details, but we absorbe the information and add it to our model. In this case,a set of stereo types, which is part of our model of the world. Over time we recognize the most important aspects of our environment on a subconscious level, improving our driving ability and increasing our available range of perception.
Friday, February 16, 2007
False Analogies
The Economist has developed a very strange concept of "insurance". It advocates anti-global-warming policies as "insurance". Funny that the insurance industry insures by saving and investing so that resources are available to be moved where they are needed when the unexpected happens instead of spending recklessly and frantically on unproven, highly speculative, risk mitigation efforts.
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