I think its unappreciated just how dangerous stories are. it can lead people to believe many untrue things, which causes many societal issues.
Maybe we are biased from our days where if you didn't listen to your ancestors by the fire, then you would be eaten by wolves. I think we're over-tuned and assign a higher truth value to stories we are told.
The only way to fight this is to gain a rationalist mindset to fight back against our inherent biases (aka brain malfunctions), but rationalists seems to be on a decline these days. Asking for evidence is *not cool*, what is cool is believing every and anything people tell you 🙄
Make skepticism cool again. #lesswrong
Not sure rationalism scales. I also do think our brains are evolutionarily wired for shorthand “words of wisdom”
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Rational ideas CAN be reduced to simple stories and/or heuristics, "words of wisdom."
For sure. I guess the question is the ability to parse the rational from irrational.
