If you are a child, and don't have much information yet, is it easier to find information plausible? It's easier to believe things, even if they are not good for you?
-
-
-
I think that as a first approximation, truth is always good for you. But if someone feeds you truth very selectively, it can be worse than lying, because it is much harder to detect. (This is why many Americans believe that Putin hacked their elections, for instance.)
- 3 more replies
New conversation -
-
-
Complex belief attractors
-
An attractor properly manifests when I can bend your belief trajectory into an orbit, while you still feel that you are moving in a straight line. That is how cults are made...
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
If the density of belief becomes high enough no opinions will be uttered along classical trajectories (e.g. op-eds), but quantum twitter fluctuations will carry away certainty in thermal tweets that are entangled with your prior beliefs
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.