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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LOL. The power of that punchline depends on your having purchased with literally no questions asked that absurd predicate about the supposed “world eminence” of humans.
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Cialdini is a pretty strong optimist.
(Whose book on persuasion was marketed principally to MBAs
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In general one should beware of anything that claims to be about ideas but which in fact is primarily marketed to MBAs
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