Preferences are proxies: Naval-Munger inversion applied to self-knowledge

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Financial preferences, intelligence preferences, education preferences — when you see someone making choices in these domains, you're seeing proxies for the underlying capability, not the capability itself. Naval Ravikant's first-principles inversion applied: don't ask what someone prefers, ask what they're capable…

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