Re:Ask HN: Are we building a tech dystopia?
by kleer001 on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:09AM
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> where you overthink things to a point that it becomes the central point of your thought and think that everything is going downhill.
That's just obsession.
There's also Negativity Bias, but that's not a process, just a particular reason for believing one particular thing (as are all biases). That said Negativity Bias, IMHO is built into human cognition. Loss Aversion is one type.
That's just obsession.
There's also Negativity Bias, but that's not a process, just a particular reason for believing one particular thing (as are all biases). That said Negativity Bias, IMHO is built into human cognition. Loss Aversion is one type.