Putting everything in easily understood and rigid boxes is a lot easier than having to look carefully at every situation, yep.
I have a suspicion that that stereotyping and other mystified mental models only become "bad" when people have more time freed up and can devote more time to thinking about them. That group usually also being the rich and/or powerful.
Yeah, if you lose the frame of stereotypes being approximations, you lose the ability to understand anything that doesn't fit. And, real life being what it is, plenty of things won't fit.
It's like getting into the deep lore like with the Star Wars Expanded Universe (et al). You need the free time to really know the ins and outs.
Nicely written. Another very mystified mental model is stereotypes and we gloss over how useful they are and how often we apply them to ourselves.
https://www.polymathicbeing.com/p/stereotyping-properly
Putting everything in easily understood and rigid boxes is a lot easier than having to look carefully at every situation, yep.
I have a suspicion that that stereotyping and other mystified mental models only become "bad" when people have more time freed up and can devote more time to thinking about them. That group usually also being the rich and/or powerful.
I think they become bad when we don't let people break out of them. But to your point, virtue signalling are luxury beliefs.
Yeah, if you lose the frame of stereotypes being approximations, you lose the ability to understand anything that doesn't fit. And, real life being what it is, plenty of things won't fit.
It's like getting into the deep lore like with the Star Wars Expanded Universe (et al). You need the free time to really know the ins and outs.