200 - Socks and Crocs (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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The Dangers of Disagreement
The danger for me is not so much that we disagree because we can argue our way out of that. We don't treat disagreement as worthy of argument the dress the shoe yanny and laurel socks and crocs they all show that we can have an opinion about something that doesn't feel like a law unfiltered unassailable truth on the internet people can form tribes around that feeling flat earth communities QAnon anti-vaxxers neo-nazis liberals conservatives and so on. Once you are a member of a tribe belonging goals will always motivate your reasoning more than accuracy goals will be as as surf pad shows we are only consciously aware of the result of these processes not
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