Being *broadly* open-minded might require an atypical relationship with the uck-no-WRONG-warp feeling that can accompany a reasonably well-developed concept that you strongly disagree with. It might be more of an aesthetic shift, or, like... mental model sadomasochism
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Doesn't every reasonably numerate person do that? Surely anyone who thinks some things are absolutely true is just a bit dim?
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A lot of people will say something like "I think it's pretty likely that x is true, but ~x isn't impossible." What almost nobody does is break x down into its component factual bases & independently assign numerical probabilities to those, then follow through to the implications
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Agree w the idea but research shows most people are terribly calibrated
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Feynman is my gold standard here. Once you get past the nausea of “oh my god there’s nothing stable to stand on”, it’s quite liberating and zen, like surfing on wavespic.twitter.com/CEdxzp9uvS
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“The mystery is not to be answered” - Rumi
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