"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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betrayal and shame suck as emotions so you can see why we'd want to be in groups with relatively stable, widely-shared worldviews
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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that's the idea!
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@drethelin holding beliefs that must be held *carefully*, as they might break, or maybe explodeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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You called?
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