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> You start by joking that you are a jew-hating nazi and then after a while you become an actual jew-hating nazi. How does that work psychologically? I think
by sangnoir 7y ago
> You start by joking that you are a jew-hating nazi and then after a while you become an actual jew-hating nazi. How does that work psychologically?
I think that's just a reaction of the mind to repeated exposure. There was an article on the work of Facebook contractors who are responsible for moderating content: one of the interviewees confessed that they ended up unintentionally internalizing/accepting the tin-foil conspiracies they repeatedly saw in the line of duty (it was 9/11 trutherism, IIRC).
My theory is you don't even have to say it jokingly, you just have to see it over and over again, and the mind will learn by rote - using the same underlying hardware as spaced repetition.
- ThrowawayR2 7y ago> My theory is you don't even have to say it jokingly, you just have to see it over and over again, and the mind will learn by rote - using the same underlying hardware as spaced repetition. If that were true, all of HN would be Rust evangelists and/or users of pure functional programming languages.
- sangnoir 7y agoI'd say HN's language on Rust and functional uses far less radical language - no one here call PHP developers sub-human. Nevertheless, my attitude towards both Rust and Haskell has softened over time.