I mostly use this site for self expression, a form of socializing, and to expose myself to ideas. I don't use it much as a persuasive medium though because I don't think it is one. But that doesn't mean it doesn't happen and I'm not sure those "ah hah!" moments ever surface.
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Like, for myself, when someone says something that convinces me I'm wrong, it's not an instantaneous thing. It's almost always a slow fuse / bifurcating / unraveling thing. But...it's hard to then remember: person X's expression was the trigger, or at least, final flake of snow.
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Partially that's because — this isn't a persuasive medium and the interface isn't designed to help you track stuff like that. But also — the things where you change your mind are less likely to come from your various (overlapping) in-groups, so there is some natural inhibition.
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I think it was the I love bawls, bawls, bawls tweet.
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HAHAHA. Count it!
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Yes but I didn't have strong priors so just plainly stating your position was enough -- you had a position I hadn't considered but that in retrospect was obviously right.
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Hrm. Yea, that may be the sweet spot for an expressive medium.
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You haven't, but I distinctly remember the post that was the straw that broke the camel's back as it were that flipped me on abortion, after which point I underwent a lot of ideological shift (when I was like 16)
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But in general I had been questioning a lot of things and reading a lot of politics/philosophy/etc It was definitely more of a final little thing that I had enough other structure around to understand/switch views not a this thought changed my whole outlook.
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