I'm increasingly convinced that clear thinking is primarily a struggle against motivated reasoning, with most everything else we tend to see as important and central instead playing a supporting role in that fight.
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Trying to find truth while fighting one's own biases.... maybe
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A potential counter to that idea: https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1364-6613%2821%2900051-6 …
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"Credo ut intelligam." - The human need to find meaning overcomes the human ability to reason clearly.
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I agree, and you might want to see this blog post of mine http://goldhaber.org/doing-politics-in-the-attention-economy-part-one/ …
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I mean, it’s not *not* a subtweet. It’s kinda the best subtweet of all time. Nominee: Best. Subtweet. E V A R !!!
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a broad conception of motivated reasoning, like a determinist view of ideology, has a general plausibility but then becomes almost too universal: makes it hard to judge particular cases, esp in one's own thinking
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the only "solution" I can think of is talking and listening to enough other ppl to recognize yr blind spots, but you need to recognize their motivated reasoning too
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