Someone at LessWrong transcribed Tyler Cowen’s TEDx talk on the problem with stories and narrative—and how we let ourselves be governed by them. It’s a good one, and faster to read than listen.
I think of a few major problems when we think too much in terms of narrative. First, narratives tend to be too simple. The point of a narrative is to strip it away, not just into 18 minutes, but most narratives you could present in a sentence or two. So when you strip away detail, you tend…
