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In a world where belief can be increasingly influenced in undetected ways due to sophisticated information targeting allowing any individual or demographic to b
by pyinstallwoes 4y ago
In a world where belief can be increasingly influenced in undetected ways due to sophisticated information targeting allowing any individual or demographic to be explicitly targeted and optimized against in a relentless attempt to modify behavior, how does one form belief that is defensible?
- Bakary 4y agoThere are a few rules of thumb you can apply: - Only a tiny minority of your beliefs have any impact on the outcome of your life. Perhaps your concept of [insert social or political policy] or [scientific topic] or [cultural idea] might have been gamed by someone at some point, but ultimately it will rarely matter whether you even hear of these concepts to begin with or not. - Of the beliefs that remain, these often become pretty defensible through practice and results. Put another way, there are plenty of barely-literate people who still have lead fascinating and worthwhile lives even in the modern era.