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People clearly prefer to elect a confident liar over a boring competent politician. There is a strong cultural maybe species bias towards confidence nonsense es
by PaulKeeble 4y ago
People clearly prefer to elect a confident liar over a boring competent politician. There is a strong cultural maybe species bias towards confidence nonsense especially when it fits our existing world view.
- pixl97 4y ago>maybe species bias I would go with species bias. Strongmen and bullshitters have risen up in every age and caused general issues with humanity when it turns out that 'making shit up' only goes so far before cold hand of reality slaps you down. It doesn't help that while physical laws are stable and universal, they are built on models of randomness and probabilities that don't give humans the comfort of 'a sure thing'.