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Exactly. Process tracing is applicable to everything.

My personal favorite, that I'm always painfully reminded of when reading political news, is the ability to hold multiple interrelated systems in your head at once and check that they're mutually consistent. There's so much unintentional doublethink out there that I think could be significantly improved if people would just stop and walk through their own thought processes in a logical manner. It's not the only way to think, and it's not appropriate for absolutely everything, but it is a good sanity check for many, many domains, and it's frustrating when people tend to look at me funny and end the conversation when I try to, for example, explain that two ideas cannot possibly be held at the same time because they're contradictory when taken a step down the line.

Come to think of it, the concept of a sanity check itself is something that I got from programming and use in everyday life.



Yeah, politics could definitely use a lot more of "sanity checking" and "unit testing" ;)

But in all seriousness, it's shocking how many people turn a blind eye to inconvenient contradictions/conflicts.




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