The problem with curating a very coherent belief system: Reality is messy AF.
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So many communities on this website feel like coders busy building beautiful and elegant systems... ...to the wrong problem.
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Which is weird, because although I think the "elegant" analogy works, making belief systems coherent involves endlessly patching what you believe with bad kludges. But, social expression and reverberation makes them feel like more than duck tape, so you forget.
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Abelson/Festinger sense of cognitive/affective balance. The thing that causes us to never admit the plausibility of arguments at odds with our MLE (at least given an adversarial social cue) because we want stable absolutes (which we than layer on top of even more).
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I'm not sure I know anyone who accepts the former anymore. (At least, not by itself: Lodge & Taber's work was great, but only derived from it.) The latter, same thing. Cognitive Dissonance is very out of fashion but affective processing is also a derivative, I'd think.
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