In my last post, I introduced Julia Galef’s way of thinking about motivated reasoning, what she calls soldier mindset: people take ideas personally, and then respond with defensiveness when “their” ideas are attacked. Among other things, soldier mindset leads people to evaluate evidence in a different way, depending on whether it supports their favored ideas […]
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