14/ PG drew some pretty bad inferences because social cognition — being faster and more integrated — caused him to process certain words as identities and out-groups, coloring his downstream perceptions and resulting quality of deliberation.
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15/ And guess what? The same mechanisms cause you to make similar mistakes, as they do for me. And, that *is* a problem because identity cues are so terribly reliable now that careful deliberation affords little boosting.
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16/ Polarization begets segmentation; segmentation begs polarization. The set of shared beliefs vanishes rapidly. Perception of ideological bias becomes omnipresent.
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17. I'm not sure what the solution to that is. I have some things I'm working on, but seriously — it's hard and, despite mediums of new scale, it's not a new problem.
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18/ But, imagine if PG had said, "listen, I'm bad at processing information given identity cues [as is everyone]. I just start reading between non-existent lines and get terribly confused and angry [as does everyone]. Can you help me evaluate what's going on more effectively?"
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19/ I would think this is a wonderful project (okay, I'm obviously biased), and I wouldn't care if PG had said it — I think that need does exist! But, because PG did say it my first instinct is some variant of, "shut up we don't need a Verrit by Peter Thiel" solution.
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20/ And that's a problem because I'm almost sure technologists *not* in his particularly sycophantic orbit have the same reaction, which creates this weird deterrence space around the need.
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21/ I'm not saying we should strip identity from political discussion. That would be foolish. But, presentation does matter and if one presentation inhibits reception of important information (as it did for PG) while another facilitates it, wouldn't you want the latter?
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How do you mean to define “inhibit” or “facilitate” as actual deliverables here?
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That's the impossibly hard part, unfortunately. At the extremes, "FUCK YOU DIPSHIT, CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL" is going to work less effectively than "the economic impact of climate change will be devastating" for Joe 401(k). But, outside of the lab, decomposition is...hard hard.
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(And at the same time, you *do* need awareness of identities and positions. E.g. the rise of white nationalism isn't something you can actively ignore. But viewing everything through that same lens has pathological effects, too.)
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I really don't want to present this as "I have any answers!" I'm just really concerned that people near me in political space seem to actively avoid the question.
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