Some good (although IMO overly optimistic) insights in this Matthew Yglesias piece on 'What the left gets right': slowboring.com/p/what-the-lef…

Probably.

Dan Williams See also: medium.com/arc-digital/is…

There is an interesting scientific debate concerning whether political beliefs that seem to result from motivated reasoning might actually be driven by Bayesian inference. Cool findings by Michael Thaler suggest motivated reasoning is real 👇.
aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Great piece 👇

People Are Stumbling From One Misguided Narrative About the Medical Model to Another

psychiatrymargins.com/p/people-are-s…

Don't really have the language to explain to you just how much I love this song:

youtube.com/watch?v=_AIRdU…

This is important stuff. The linear connection between 'the existence of misinfo', 'exposure to misinfo', 'people believe misinfo' and 'people act on misinfo' is usually drawn in too thick a pen.
newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

'I suspect that the primary reason why people think rational arguments do not work is because they simply do not have good arguments for their views, and the reason they do not have good arguments for their views is because their views are bad and uninformed.'

Me, old-school liberal amid wokes:

'By contrast, the holder of a belief at odds w/ public discourse is routinely reminded of the flaws in his thinking. He feels pressured, therefore, to revise his beliefs. If nothing else, he finds himself gripped by doubt & confusion.” (Kuran)

Happy to have reviewed this very nuanced and insightful UK parliamentary report on misinformation 👇

Excellent piece by Dan comparing two strategies to win political debate: persuasion and social pressure.

I conjecture that the efficacy of social pressure is “frequency dependent”. It may be practically effective to curb some views when they are in a minority, but if these views

I've got one more belief to add to the top of the list:

the government is covering up the existence of crashed extraterrestrial vehicles and bodies.

Then go read the essay.

Suppose you are strongly motivated to spread a belief. Should you try to bully people into accepting it, or should you try to spread it by presenting evidence and arguments? Some thoughts: conspicuouscognition.com/p/rational-per…

'conscious and deliberate motivated cognition is not as difficult as it is often portrayed... the important question is not whether conscious and deliberate belief-biasing is possible but in which contexts it is more prevalent'
-Stephen Gadsby researchgate.net/publication/37…