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#2535 - Andrew Wilson

Explore episode Aug 5, 2026

If you think in a conspiratorial frame, you're usually taking tangential things and piecing them together that don't belong. But then if you think in an autistic frame, you're going to hone down so deep on one detail that you miss the entirety of the picture.

Andrew Wilson

#2535 - Andrew Wilson

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#2535 - Andrew Wilson

Education

The Two Cognitive Traps: Conspiratorial vs. Autistic Thinking

#2535 - Andrew Wilson · Aug 5, 2026 Education

There are two ways people fail to think straight about complex events. Conspiratorial thinkers connect unrelated dots; autistic thinkers zoom in so deep they lose the whole picture. The truth almost always lives somewhere between both failure modes.

Conspiracies exist, we know this. Many of them exist. There's many of them I can state off the top of my head, like MKUltra. That was a conspiracy that existed. But there's also a lot that don't. And so, how do you disassociate between the two?

Andrew Wilson

#2535 - Andrew Wilson

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