There's a pretty strong relationship between one's self-image as a dispassionate rational thinker and the degree to which one is susceptible to fall for utterly irrational beliefs that are presented with some sort of scientific veneer
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People are subject to identity bias (you are more likely to believe a statement that seems to match your identity). If your identity is "I'm a rationalist", then you're more likely to fall for arguments that feature superficial scientific attributes.
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The side joke is that a self-styled rationalist's primary mechanism for adopting beliefs remains identity reinforcement -- just like everyone else -- rather than the actual rational value of an argument.
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I don’t understand your thesis. Anyone who is inside Dunning Kruger valley will be easy to fool or emotionally manipulate. And, it is much harder (= more data needed) to disprove a well-written proof of Riemann hyp than a poorly written clickbait article about 5G.
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e.g. we're living in a simulation...
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So much of my AP physics class was unlearning the pseudo science understanding of what the terms we were learning actually did.
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