#heuristics — Public Fediverse posts

In this follow-up to the Merits of Meritocracy, I delved a little deeper into Trump and Plato's Republic.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/22/the-merits-of-meritocracy/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
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I've been wittering on about the history and failings of Meritocracy, but I hadn't drafted a version for Substack.
👉 https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-merits-of-meritocracy

I've purposely left Trump, but clearly he's a central figure in this perspective. Very few situations merit meritocracy as a lens, but we seem to overextend it. It is certainly overrepresented in business.

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Objective reality is a heuristic resulting from constraints of subject-object grammar. Nagel asked What's it like to be a bat? But more fundamentally, what's it like to be human?
https://philosophics.blog/2026/06/02/living-in-the-house-of-the-bat-man/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social
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About 50 judges working in #Greece completed a novel Judicial Heuristics Assessment Questionnaire (J-HAQ), a 5-item reflection test, etc.

Judges' reported use of anchoring #heuristics correlated with their reflection test scores.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fcogn.2025.1421488

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