One interesting point she made is that the best…

One interesting point she made is that the best cons are never discovered, so we never know how many times we have been conned without knowing it.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit · Practical Uncertainty: Useful Ideas in Decision-Making, Risk, Randomness, and AI by Hossei

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The deepest fault is simply this: we continually fool ourselves. And we are devastatingly good at it — the best cons, the saying goes, are never discovered, so we have no idea how many times we have been conned, least of all by ourselves. Most of the time we genuinely feel we are doing what is right even as we deceive ourselves, and the cycle never announces itself. […] To my children, and to theirs: I want to leave you with the most freeing and most humbling thing I learned about my own mind: you are the easiest person in the world for you to fool. Not your rival, not the stranger, not the salesman — you. — The Mind in the Cockpit

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