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197 - Conspiratorial Thinking

You Are Not So Smart

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How to Get Someone Out of a Conspiracy Theory Loop

I like the analogy of the ant death spiral. The solution is that you have to get out of that algorithm. That's again the metacognition. All you can do is just be, you know, persistently try to get them to think about that very fact itself. And it'll either resonate with them or won't you'll get through where you won't.

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