"update your beliefs" makes it sound like there's a spreadsheet in your skull and you go in and change a value, no big deal
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seeking out information that challenges your deeply held beliefs is good but also like sticking your hand in the fire over and over
betrayal and shame suck as emotions so you can see why we'd want to be in groups with relatively stable, widely-shared worldviews
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a culture might also provide tools for holding beliefs while minimizing the cost of updating: irony, goofiness, levels of anonymity, fiction
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Hope you are going to turn this tweet sequence into a post
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apparently "sticky beliefs" is a thing in both Serious Economics and lowbrow self-help http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2562119 …pic.twitter.com/HDG17LGFPN
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I don't have any ideology anymore and too much adhd to get past stage 4 welp
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