1/ Politics is a search for rules. People disagree as to which rules are good and which rules are bad. Identity structures those judgement via experiences. Experiences are inherently subjective and conditioned by identity.
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2/ Politics is a search for rules wherein individuals rely upon group identity as a heuristic to reduce complexity while *rationalizing* their positions.
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Replying to @generativist
I reckon it's even deeper ingrained than that. Have you seen https://youarenotsosmart.com/2018/02/26/yanss-122-how-our-unchecked-tribal-psychology-pollutes-politics-science-and-just-about-everything-else/ … ? Well worth a listen.
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Replying to @simon_wiles
I'll give it a listen. The article reads like exactly the conclusions of my dissertation... ...and, I started from extremely charitable assertions in building my model like: assume no one expresses insincere beliefs.
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Replying to @generativist
That's part of what struck me about the research discussed here -- that insincerity / bad faith are largely irrelevant (except, and this is one thing the podcast missed imo, that there are actors at large who understand this stuff very well, and are actively weaponizing it...).
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Replying to @simon_wiles
Yep. Same conclusions under my model. (Well, I also navel gaze and ask whether decomposition via stereotyping is also the process we use for "higher" intelligence.)
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But I structured it as a machine learning problem: Given this social learning algorithm how good does it uncover ground truth. And, when does it become pathological. We're in the pathological. Twitter cues {identity, idea} in a way that favors identity in evaluation.
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