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Conscious Mind Is a Press Secretary
The conscious part of your mind is not the king or president in charge of your behavior but a press secretary: it doesn't actually know why you do things, but it is skilled at constructing good-sounding excuses after the fact, and it doesn't realize that it doesn't know.
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Robin HansonEvidence Quote
“you're good at coming up with excuses for what you're doing but you don't actually know what you're actually doing you don't realize that you don't know”
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:08:54 AM
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