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k__ on Feb 5, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Nazi Interrogator Who Revealed the Value of Kind...

I tried to use this in a blogpost this week.

Somehow people just said "Well, sounds about right"

pure-awesome on Feb 5, 2019 [–]

Hindsight bias is a thing - people tend to overestimate their ability to have known or predicted something they've found out.

This page describes the effect quite well: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WnheMGAka4fL99eae/hindsight-...

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