The ability to focus your attention and point it at the things that are important to you is going to be the most important skill of the 21st Century.

McLuhan said this in 1968. Information has accelerated dramatically in the following 50 years and continues to do so. https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1289751743123714048
1) Pattern recognition is bias.

2) Pattern recognition can be manufactured simply through repetitive exposure to carefully controlled or selected stimulus.

3) Pattern recognition is not confirmation of truth.

4) It's far too easy to make spurious correlations.
5) Pattern recognition makes it easy to believe that something is true or will be true; the more it is reinforced, the more you will be convinced the pattern is real.
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