100% agree. (Well 99%. I think there are *some* ways to persuade. But that’s a different discussion.) But still, if this is driven by political alignments, still have to clarify how “political alignments” works, and why it leads to *this* logical bias? Eg could be ...
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Replying to @Moshe_Hoffman @Plinz
Signals political allegiance. Or Is effective for political party, which somehow you are motivated to help with (perhaps because of peer pressure from other party members or leaders?) Or ? What do you think?
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Replying to @Moshe_Hoffman
The willingness to entertain even absurd convictions represents a public sacrifice of reasoned autonomy on the altar of being a reliably good tribe member. You recognize your tribe not by generic rationality but by their specific epistemological scars.
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Replying to @Plinz
Hmm, so you are saying willingness to look illogical is a costly display of commitment to the group?
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Replying to @Moshe_Hoffman @Plinz
But that begs the question: why this illogical display? When any would do? Doesn’t even have to “support” one’s party’s position, does it? Or if it does, then we are back to original question: does this actually “support” party’s position? If so, what do we mean by “support”?
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Replying to @Moshe_Hoffman @Plinz
Why not this specific display? We need *some* display, and letting voters look stupid is relatively harmless, and we seem to like it (mostly).
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Replying to @imhinesmi @Plinz
But so many ways to look stupid. Why this particular logical fallacy?
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Replying to @Moshe_Hoffman @Plinz
Any will do, pick one at random, this one works fine. Everyone copies everyone else's arguments, so once one stupid thing is out there it repeats.
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Replying to @imhinesmi @Plinz
Ok. But that suggests it’s random. Doesn’t look random to me.
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Replying to @Moshe_Hoffman @Plinz
People are stupid in lots of ways. Repeating wrong arguments for things we want to be right is just one of them. Evolution is pretty random, and our minds are evolved. We get whatever functional mechanism we get first.
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Only if it locks out the alternatives.
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