When your loved ones go MAGA
I settled on a way to think about people like Usama bin Kevin. He was a normal person from 2001-06. Then he started listening to InfoWars and going into the far right rabbit holes. The friend I had...
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Idiots seem so happy
Acccusation = projection
I think that if a person is hyper religious, then they've got dark impulses that they're trying to keep at bay through faith. They need an external control on their behavior because they don't feel...
Opinion masquerading as wisdom
This was an interesting looks at what constitutes fact based vs opinion journalism: What are facts? There are many interpretations. Some of them say that facts are fluid and open to interpretation....
Conspiracies are easy
Tell me what i want to hear
Great quote from Reddit: It must be hard taking your car to 100 mechanics before you get to one that tells you your brakes are working just fine. It must be hard going to 100 doctors before you find...
JAQing Off
From the great comic, Wondermark, a word for the type of trolling some people do: This comic created the concept of sealioning. If anyone does this to you, cut them out of your life immediately. This...
You didn't research that
Why Do People Believe In Conspiracy Theories?
Following the hierarchy of evidence, the sections here are organized from the strongest to the weakest evidence: ' Systematic reviews/meta analyses Social science research
Making Decisions
Decision making is a multi-faceted subject. It goes beyond just deciding yes or no. As the resources below will show you, there are a number of ways to make decisions optimally. Behavioral Economics...
Blessed with inappropriate confidence
Even though the Dunning-Kruger Effect has been disproven, I think it still has some validity as a general yardstick. ... the incompetent are often blessed with an inappropriate confidence, buoyed by...
The curse of having an opinion about everything
The Curse of Having an Opinion About Everything To say: “I don’t have an opinion on that.” (Even if deep down we do!) To focus on the things in front of us that matter, or more importantly, that are...
Conspiracy theorists
Conspiracy Theorists Aren’t Really Skeptics: Conspiracy believers are the ultimate motivated skeptics. Their curse is that they apply this selective scrutiny not to the left or right, but to the...
Evaluating Information
Conspiracy theorists seem to be people who are uncomfortable with the unknown. Explanations for unexplainable things, no matter how outlandish, are better than the alternative. The alternative is to...