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so last we we have "you are all individuals; I'm not" and this week we have "reality has an awful lot of details; and it is details all the way down"

> We intimated too that the rationalist illusion is a particularly dangerous one, because it gives rise to the further, utterly compelling twin illusions (i) that our search for solutions was comprehensive, when in reality it was anything but, and (ii) that the suboptimal solution at which we ultimately arrived was the best we or anyone could come up with under the circumstances.

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