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Once people began revealing their sexual orientation to friends and family, the floodgates started to open, perhaps especially when their family members were politicians who were members of a party opposed to this change.
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Extremists are often following one another.
Cass R. Sunstein • Conformity
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George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By
one of the most significant building blocks of contemporary morality: the fundamental recognition that it is wrong to punish, demean or look down on people for characteristics over which they have no control.
Douglas Murray • The Madness of Crowds
The Atlantic • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
Alex Morris • 3_TRENDS_Vol.12: Alex Morris: Assisted Socializing, Memory Management + Professional Amateurs
Indeed, unjustified extremism frequently results from a “crippled epistemology,” in which extremists react to a small subset of relevant information, coming mostly from one another.
Cass R. Sunstein • Conformity
in practice both EAs and rationalists have a catholic appetite for involving themselves in all sorts of controversies. Effective altruism