In a group of ten million, you can always find a psychopath. But our intuitions are calibrated for 10-100 people.
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So it's easy to "prove" to a human that any particular group of ten million people is evil--particularly in the age of the Internet.
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We discount bad examples in small, high-status groups--exactly where that kind of information is actually relevant and important.
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Applications to current political matters in social media left as an exercise for the reader.
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@St_Rev This can easily be flipped for when groups are sanctified. I see no signs macro, truely employed individuals is really possible. -
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@St_Rev Particularly if groups who consciously or unconsciously discriminate succeed in a feedback loop
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@St_Rev Process IDing bad ppl relevant too. If I meet 5 bankers & all are scumbags, OK. If I read abt them on http://outrage.com OTOH... -
@simplic10 Right, that's key. In the environment of the internet, examples brought to bear in political fights are almost always curated.
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@St_Rev "this widely-respected leader of X is a bad person" can sometimes be useful, even for very large X. -
@GrumplessGrinch "Leadership" is a small group.
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