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Originally Posted by Cuepee
The most reliable cure for confirmation bias is interaction with people who don’t share your beliefs. They confront you with counterevidence and counterargument. John Stuart Mill said, “He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that,” and he urged us to seek out conflicting views “from persons who actually believe them.” People who think differently and are willing to speak up if they disagree with you make you smarter, almost as if they are extensions of your own brain. People who try to silence or intimidate their critics make themselves stupider, almost as if they are shooting darts into their own brain.
Big admirer of John Stuart Mill but I think people confuse his conclusions with his principles/thought. He lived a loing time ago and things have changed a lot. He may have reached a different conclusions when we have such easy access to all the arguments/etc.
There is a big problem here but I dont think it's the same one as above for anyone who is interested. The bigger problem is that we fail to make our own arguments by denyng there is anythign to disagree about. Far too many people are abandoned along the way.
