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The driving forces behind biases—the root causes of our irrationality—are largely unconscious, which means they remain invisible to self-analysis and impermeable to intelligence.

- Jonah Lehrer, Research Shows That the Smarter People Are, the More Susceptible They Are to Cognitive Bias via The New Yorker

The man I would most like to have dinner with.

By the way, I answered the two puzzles in the article correctly, but I may have been helped by the awareness that the article was about cognitive bias.