Kamala Harris has plans to improve health, boost the economy and mitigate climate change. Donald Trump has threats and a dangerous record| Scientific American
Ignorance and misperceptions are not puzzling. The challenge is to explain why some people see reality accurately.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
A deep dive into four factors that prevent members of open societies from understanding political reality: complexity, invisibility, incentives, and politically motivated cognition.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
Fake news, media bias, and the misinformation wars.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
People are "naive realists" about politics, treating their beliefs as objective, unbiased, and unmediated interpretations of self-evident facts. I explore the roots of this harmful delusion.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
In "Public Opinion" (1922), Walter Lippmann argued that the vastness, complexity, and invisibility of the modern world make democracy impossible. He got a lot right.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
This is often bad and we should develop stronger norms against it.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
[Content warning: Politics, religion, social justice, spoilers for “The Secret of Father Brown”. This isn’t especially original to me and I don’t claim anything more than to…| Slate Star Codex