This is why I kinda wish there was something like anonymous-but-friendly downvotes or something. The ingroup/outgroup criticism cost asymmetry creates one hell of a gradient.
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Basically,pic.twitter.com/JUQOpRR2Zy
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Related: Tfw criticism of the ingroup intended as part of normal self-improvement is intercepted by the outgroup & spun as evidence of resistance to self improvement.
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Or spun as evidence that, “Even these guys acknowledge that their group is wrongheaded.” (Once again, however, this is an example of asymmetric polarization. One side engages in much more of this sort of bad faith cherry-picking than the other—and we all know which side it is.)
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Replying to @generativist @Aelkus and
Referring to the pathological and chronic use of factional (group) heuristics that are generally useful but, in this env, excessively valuable.
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Yea. Tribalism is an environmentally-induced pathology. But the driver is...basic cognitive hygiene. But, to make the worst analogy I've ever made, if you spend 8 hours sudsing up in the shower every day, your skin will fall off.
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