at some level of sociodynamics poisoning, it becomes challenging not to dismiss out of hand any proposition that neatly fits a powerful cultural formation's preferred narrative, on the assumption that it's a febrile product of motivated reasoning
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Replying to @chaosprime
all reasoning is motivated, calling *some* reasoning motivated is just a low-effort dismissal of that reasoning tbh
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Replying to @palecur
is there a better term i should use for starting with your conclusions and working backward from them
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Replying to @palecur
it's really not and saying it is is a miserable excuse for a crap behavior
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Replying to @chaosprime
honestly I do think it's the default human mode and not remarkably objectionable; starting from the conclusion is a good way to reach the conclusions you need to reach, and if you can't build a good chain of reasoning it's a good sign you need to pick a different conclusion.
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Replying to @palecur
as far as i can tell you've conflated induction with motivated reasoning, which is... awful
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let's say some economic tragedy has happened, and you bring a couple of economists into a room. one is a broadly trained guy with no particular ideological commitments
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do guys with no particular ideological commitments come from the same store where i get my massless pulleys and frictionless ropes
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they work there summers sometimes when they aren't milking perfectly spherical cows
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