This event profoundly shaped our world, but it has never been explained clearly, afaik. My eggplant book tries; but only relatively briefly (~50 pages) because it’s just background to my actual topics. Wish I could recommend a good source instead.https://twitter.com/everytstudies/status/1108008134839320579 …
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Reminds me of a Mark Twain line: “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
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It feels like there _could be_. For example, when you do the 9 dot problem, you wouldn't expect to find someone who sticks so hard to his assumptions that he's like, "No, you can never draw outside the dots. Those are the rules."
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With religious types, there isn't a system to their thinking you can challenge, so the deconversion is often about lived experience and how their beliefs and experiences differ. But with rationalists, I keep hoping that there's a systematic way to show the limits, bc they /
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