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And here we get to one of the dangers of our stovepiped echo chambers of information in modern media. If updating your mental model to adapt your beliefs requires not just one, but some preponderance of anomalies breaking the old model down, living in a bubble where such anomalies are never made available makes it impossible to change.
— Aug 21, 2026 09:35AM
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Richard
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There's always a sort of recursive meta effect when reading about how thoughts happen biochemically. It's a little like being aware of your breathing.
— Jul 22, 2026 05:18PM
Richard
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"The full explanation for interpretation polarization requires a gestalt understanding of not just politics, but the psychology of reasoning, motivation, social costs, norms, beliefs, attitudes, and values, not just at the level of human interaction, but within individual brains, right down to neurons, hormones, and ganglia."
And here we begin to see why breaking echo chambers is so damn hard.
— Jul 19, 2026 02:45PM
And here we begin to see why breaking echo chambers is so damn hard.
Richard
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"The world, as you know experience it, is a simulation running inside your skull, a waking dream."
Man, Mage: The Ascension prepped me for so much in life.
— Jun 15, 2026 04:42PM
Man, Mage: The Ascension prepped me for so much in life.
Richard
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The opening story about the backlash of the 9/11 Truther community against one of their own who changed their mind is sitting next to the 2/3rds of the book I've finished on cult language and they're talking amiably.
— Jun 07, 2026 11:03AM