" Provenance: heard about Stewart-Williams through Chris Williamson — which checks out (Stewart-Williams was MW #786, May 2024; recorded a second Austin taping in late 2025/early 2026).
Munthe's frame has a selection-problem gap he doesn't fully close. He documents that beliefs are shaped by environment + genes.
The user's "interesting read" share, on this surface, is a recognition gesture — the article is a posture piece (the intellectual-independence frame), and the user already operates inside that frame (the Preferences As Proxies For Capability page is the same…
" We can control our beliefs (we are "hardwired not to be hardwired"), but we are predisposed to many of them. Understanding these unconscious influences is the first step toward intellectual independence.
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