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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Replying to @Shugars
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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Replying to @Shugars @generativist
I prefer to think of reasoning like a proto-galaxy. There are dense clumps, but it's not really 'coherent' in the Festinger sense. When asked our opinion or faced with a decision, we temporarily collapse portions of this space into coherent solar systems of thought.pic.twitter.com/l5dqjj1Yxl
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This solar system may become stable if the generating moment was significant, but it generally dissolves back out into an ephemeral blob and may or may not collapse into the same solar system again depending on future events.
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Yes! I think reification of graphical structures with concrete edges (including for social interactions) is...useful, but very misleading. Everything's a lot more probablistic, and missing links aren't p=0.
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