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While this all looks accurate the conclusion shouldn't be: and therefore lobbying is nothing to worry about. Cognitive capture is in many ways more worrisome th
by bradleyjg 13y ago
While this all looks accurate the conclusion shouldn't be: and therefore lobbying is nothing to worry about. Cognitive capture is in many ways more worrisome than outright quid pro quo corruption. Among other reasons, because there is very little that can be done about it, at least consistent with the First Amendment and liberal principles in general.
- magicalist 13y ago> Cognitive capture is in many ways more worrisome than outright quid pro quo corruption Agreed, but it's also impossible to avoid this as long as the people in Congress are humans and not robots. We all believe in something, we all find some point of view more reasonable than another, and we all have experience in life (who we grew up with, who we associate with now) that vastly influence those cognitive biases. We'll always be able to strive to expand points of view and limit time monopolized by any particular cause, but in the end there's no avoiding "cognitive capture".
- rayiner 13y agoThe best solution to cognitive capture is to make lobbying easy. If you make it hard to fight the status quo with money, you just make it harder to fight the status quo.