{"id":3735,"date":"2010-03-03T04:23:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T09:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2010-03-03T04:23:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T09:23:54","slug":"repost-the-biggest-lie-overcoming-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/03\/repost-the-biggest-lie-overcoming-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: The Biggest Lie? :: Overcoming Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So the movie\u2019s thesis is that to be happy, we must self-deceive and embrace incorrect but inspiring far-view ideals, such love, friendship, altruism, laughter, art, and fiction.  This thesis affirms a core ideal we seem desperate to believe: that common far ideals have little practical function.  For example, we want to think that our loves of fiction or laughter are \u201ctrue\u201d loves, and do little to achieve base and personal purposes.<br \/>\nIn fact of course our far ideals evolved to serve concrete, practical, and largely personal functions.  A world without lies would still contain art, laughter, fiction, etc. \u2013 we\u2019d just be more honest about the functions they serve.  But that is a truth we dare not tell; we\u2019d actually rather believe that most of our other cherished ideals are lies.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2010\/03\/do-we-need-lies.html\">Overcoming Bias : The Biggest Lie?<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the movie\u2019s thesis is that to be happy, we must self-deceive and embrace incorrect but inspiring far-view ideals, such love, friendship, altruism, laughter, art, and fiction. This thesis affirms a core ideal we seem desperate to believe: that common far ideals have little practical function. For example, we want to think that our loves &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/03\/repost-the-biggest-lie-overcoming-bias\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: The Biggest Lie? :: Overcoming Bias&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}