I think you’re wise to point out the potential risk of increasing the effectiveness of changing others’ beliefs. Like any technology or technique, when we consider whether to contribute to its development, we have to consider both the potential harm it could do in the wrong hands and the potential good it could do in the right ones. I’m not sure enough people in the education and debiasing communities realize that.
I think you’re wise to point out the potential risk of increasing the effectiveness of changing others’ beliefs. Like any technology or technique, when we consider whether to contribute to its development, we have to consider both the potential harm it could do in the wrong hands and the potential good it could do in the right ones. I’m not sure enough people in the education and debiasing communities realize that.