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I feel like there's a really unfortunate effect where we see someone else's tribal beliefs when they say stuff that's unhinged from our collective available und
by furyofantares 3y ago
I feel like there's a really unfortunate effect where we see someone else's tribal beliefs when they say stuff that's unhinged from our collective available understanding, like blanket calling all climate change information "fake news", and it results in us strengthening our own beliefs because we know this person with the opposite belief has totally garbage methodology on the topic.
But it's not actually evidence for our beliefs, and we don't notice how it strengthens our own tribal beliefs, and so we don't notice that it's also unhinged to causally talk about "global total destruction" in this context, and only validated by tribal effects. And then our "fake news" friends notice our garbage methodology and take it as evidence for the correctness of their beliefs.