The Limits of Epistemic Hygiene - new ribbonfarm by me, on idea contagionhttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/03/02/the-limits-of-epistemic-hygiene/ …
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b/c the mechanism for contagion to occur is by recipients rationally evaluating ideas - must be true or strongly seem true
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e.g. the thing about suicide contagion: the real threat is potential suicides learning factual information about methods
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