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“John Kenneth Galbraith said: “Faced with the choice of changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”1 And the greater the inconvenience of changing one’s mind, the more effort people will expend on the proof.” (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality)
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John Kenneth Galbraith, Turn to face your beliefs, then throw rocks at them
“John Kenneth Galbraith said: “Faced with the choice of changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”1 And the greater the inconvenience of changing one’s mind, the more effort people will expend on the proof.” (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality)
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John Kenneth Galbraith, Turn to face your beliefs, then throw rocks at them