Justin Gregg defines prognostic myopia as the capacity to think about and alter the future while caring insufficiently about future outcomes.

Format Book / Offline paper

Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 12: DARK INFORMATION Bad Enough to Destroy

"Justin Gregg defines prognostic myopia as the capacity to think about and alter the future while caring insufficiently about future outcomes."

Gregg names this mismatch between human foresight and weak concern for distant consequences prognostic myopia.

Source title If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

Source authors Justin Gregg

Source year 2022

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