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How hard it is: "Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds -- New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason -- Elizabeth Kolbert (2017)" https://w
by acqq 6y ago
How hard it is: "Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds --
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason -- Elizabeth Kolbert (2017)"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont...
Seriously discussed twice on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23757135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23757135
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099488
I believe it is possible to reach others, but it's far from being easy, and involves much, much more than just telling the facts. Which doesn't mean that you don't have to understand what you want to talk about.