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I think they just had a perspective on what the world should be, who's a good person, who's a bad person. And they distributed that perspective to everyone else, including New York Times readers like me. So once I realized that, oh, I have a default assumption that these other people are objective, but they can't be because they're people just like me.
I think they just had a perspective on what the world should be, who's a good person, who's a bad person. And they distributed that perspective to everyone else, including New York Times readers like me. So once I realized that, oh, I have a default assumption that these other people are objective, but they can't be because they're people just like me.
Then I started to gain a more nuanced perspective on the sources of information that I was consuming. And I realized, oh, I've just been taking everything I've been told at face value. I've been taking everything I was told about Trump at face value.
Then I started to gain a more nuanced perspective on the sources of information that I was consuming. And I realized, oh, I've just been taking everything I've been told at face value. I've been taking everything I was told about Trump at face value.
Then I started to gain a more nuanced perspective on the sources of information that I was consuming. And I realized, oh, I've just been taking everything I've been told at face value. I've been taking everything I was told about Trump at face value.
And rather than considering that a perspective among many perspectives and trying to reconcile that with other perspectives that I heard, I had just been locked into one perspective and saying, oh, this is the truth and there's nothing else. And to make this like practically understandable, I mean, like we're here in Santa Monica.
And rather than considering that a perspective among many perspectives and trying to reconcile that with other perspectives that I heard, I had just been locked into one perspective and saying, oh, this is the truth and there's nothing else. And to make this like practically understandable, I mean, like we're here in Santa Monica.
And rather than considering that a perspective among many perspectives and trying to reconcile that with other perspectives that I heard, I had just been locked into one perspective and saying, oh, this is the truth and there's nothing else. And to make this like practically understandable, I mean, like we're here in Santa Monica.
You were to go out in the street and one person was wearing a shirt and they said in New York Times and they told you a fact, you wouldn't just automatically believe them because it was very clear that a person gave you perspective. But for some reason, when...
You were to go out in the street and one person was wearing a shirt and they said in New York Times and they told you a fact, you wouldn't just automatically believe them because it was very clear that a person gave you perspective. But for some reason, when...
You were to go out in the street and one person was wearing a shirt and they said in New York Times and they told you a fact, you wouldn't just automatically believe them because it was very clear that a person gave you perspective. But for some reason, when...
the label new york times or cnn or whatever three-letter accurate acronym is put on an information source and a website on the internet we're like oh well this just must be a fact which is silly and i get why we all default to just believing in objective sources of information because we're all subjected to so much information we just want simplicity like we don't have time to verify our own facts and do our own research we just want to move along and
the label new york times or cnn or whatever three-letter accurate acronym is put on an information source and a website on the internet we're like oh well this just must be a fact which is silly and i get why we all default to just believing in objective sources of information because we're all subjected to so much information we just want simplicity like we don't have time to verify our own facts and do our own research we just want to move along and
the label new york times or cnn or whatever three-letter accurate acronym is put on an information source and a website on the internet we're like oh well this just must be a fact which is silly and i get why we all default to just believing in objective sources of information because we're all subjected to so much information we just want simplicity like we don't have time to verify our own facts and do our own research we just want to move along and
put food on our table, take care of our families, get our career on track, all these things. But And there's nothing wrong with taking other people's word for things. That's how humans have operated. That's how we scale our understanding of the universe. We can't all be scientists and verify everything.
put food on our table, take care of our families, get our career on track, all these things. But And there's nothing wrong with taking other people's word for things. That's how humans have operated. That's how we scale our understanding of the universe. We can't all be scientists and verify everything.
put food on our table, take care of our families, get our career on track, all these things. But And there's nothing wrong with taking other people's word for things. That's how humans have operated. That's how we scale our understanding of the universe. We can't all be scientists and verify everything.
But the problem becomes when we become emotionally attached to our beliefs, it makes us really susceptible to manipulation. And it causes us to be attached to things without even understanding why we're attached to things in the first place. So I think one of the first... collapses of the paradigm that I was in was this idea of objective information or objective news sources.
But the problem becomes when we become emotionally attached to our beliefs, it makes us really susceptible to manipulation. And it causes us to be attached to things without even understanding why we're attached to things in the first place. So I think one of the first... collapses of the paradigm that I was in was this idea of objective information or objective news sources.
But the problem becomes when we become emotionally attached to our beliefs, it makes us really susceptible to manipulation. And it causes us to be attached to things without even understanding why we're attached to things in the first place. So I think one of the first... collapses of the paradigm that I was in was this idea of objective information or objective news sources.