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AMA | May 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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You Can Get Bad Information From the News Media

I think we have to develop our skill set of being able to distinguish between good information and bad information. If you're a hundred % sure that talking to someone on the other side can change your opinion, that's in some sense, good for you. But in another sense, it means that you need to do that talking to both sides and figure out which side do you agree with more. I hope not the case that if you talk to two people on different sides, alternating a hundred times in a row, that you would change your mind a hundred times. That would bel at least, it would be very strange. The reason why we vote for people, rather than do derect direct

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