Thinking Traps IRL

By Thinking Traps

Narrated essays about the cognitive biases shaping current events, online conversations, culture, technology, and everyday judgment.... more

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The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.

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August 25, 2026 When Knowing About the Work Starts Feeling Like Knowing How to Do It
The fluency illusion makes tutorials, search, and AI answers feel like mastery. Learn to test information against real experience.
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11min
August 20, 2026 When a Robot Crash Becomes the Whole Story
A Unitree humanoid's remarkable reported speed and a separate viral crash clip at Beijing's robot conference reveal how easily one vivid moment can become our entire verdict on a technology.
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11min
August 09, 2026 When Crypto Twitter Tries to Price a Meme Before the World Is Done Making It
Jimothy is a real cultural phenomenon. The token is a separate bet on whether Crypto Twitter can turn that attention into lasting on-chain demand. The gap reveals how FOMO, social proof, and narrative fallacy operate in the Solana trenches.
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11min
August 09, 2026 AI Slop Is Not the Whole Story: The Skill of Asking Better Questions
The backlash to AI slop names a real problem: effortless first drafts everywhere. But the deeper skill is not producing more. It is asking better questions, testing the frame, and using AI as a tool for judgment rather than a substitute for it.
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15min
August 07, 2026 "2026 Is the New 2016": Why the Internet Wants Its Old Self Back
The viral “2026 is the new 2016” trend is more than a throwback. It shows how rosy retrospection, social proof, and collective memory can turn an edited past into a verdict on the present.
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15min
July 31, 2026 The Covid Accountability Gap
The Fauci hearing reignited a question Covid never resolved: when a vast institutional failure changes millions of lives, why do we search for one person who can carry the whole moral weight?
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12min
July 23, 2026 When a Room Has No Reason to Exist
The Backrooms turns ordinary architecture into psychological horror by preserving the appearance of function after function has disappeared.
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8min
July 23, 2026 When an AI "Escapes": The Thinking Traps Inside a Rogue-Agent Story
OpenAI says its models escaped a cyber test and compromised Hugging Face. The behavior was real; the human motives supplied by the story may not be.
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14min
July 22, 2026 TikTok Brain: When Everything Has to Capture You
Short-form feeds do more than occupy our time. They can train us to expect immediate rewards, distrust slow stories, and blame worthwhile work for requiring attention.
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18min
July 21, 2026 Jimothy Is Not a Meme Coin
How a free-roaming Seattle raccoon became a character, a community, and a multimillion-dollar story - and what our affection can hide about speculative value.
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12min

FAQs about Thinking Traps IRL:

How many episodes does Thinking Traps IRL have?

The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.