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One of my favorite ev-psych hypotheses is that humans evolved to be so good at lying to themselves so that they could believably lie to others.



This is where evopsych starts getting too close to psychoanalysis, and therefore bullshit.

Humans have this tendency to use some tool way beyond its realm of applicability.




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