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The propaganda playbook looks like this: Identify a falsehood that’s convenient for tyranny Make it as fashionable as possible Make dissenting opinions as unfashionable as possible Fashion is central.
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Recall psycho-economics 101: Our ability to care about stuff is limited. Therefore, caring about truth competes with everything else we might care…
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Our ability to care about stuff is limited. This is pretty self-evident, right? You can’t care about everything. That means everything we care about…
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In 1929, Edward Bernays broke the taboo against women smoking cigarettes, doubling the customer base for tobacco companies in America. He did it by…
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As a general rule, discovering truth seems far more beneficial than avoiding error. To illustrate — Discovering a truth: Dinosaurs are real. This is…
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I’ve been talking about “feeling through the pain caused by the threat of being changed by a new idea.” Here’s some guidance for how to actually do this…
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Consider the scoreboard. In baseball, the scoreboard tells you the pitch count and how many outs there are. You need that knowledge, it’s strategic. In…
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I’ve talked mostly about noticing the desire not to understand by noticing the threat of pain — how much it would hurt to believe x. Judging an argument…
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