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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2989 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let Them Eat Facts: Why Fact Checking Is Mostly Useless In Convincing Voters

This isn't entirely accurate.

Humans are rational creatures, it's just that the inputs and outputs we're reacting to are a Laplace transform of the inputs and outputs we're presented with. The trick is to couch the argument to both sets of I/O and recognize that while you're doing so, you're also coming from a place of id, not ego.





b_b  ·  2989 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Venkatesh Rao of Ribbon Farm likes to say that the goal of rationality isn't truth but order. That is, that we use rationality as a crutch to understand the world internally, no matter what the objective truth might be externally.