Is there a term for this? When you get btfo on your belief, so you hunker down, and now you have to resort to really minor point-scoring? https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1260133603641417728 …
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Like, if you argue “the pandemic is overblown, the US will be at zero new cases by the end of April,” and it turns out there are a million, this should probably cause you to majorly update on if the pandemic is overblown. Of course! But what’s interesting here—
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—is the pivot to finding minor points that are anti-lockdown, even though they have nothing to do with his main argument! It’s fascinating and something I see a lot. If you’re anti-X, and reality is 95% in X’s favour, you can hang out in that 5% for a very long time.—
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—I don’t know Musk’s thought process so I might be making leaps, and I’m also still not totally sure what it is I’m noticing! But there really is a type (“I’m not owned, I’m not owned...*esoteric hair-splitting”).
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