Susceptibility to falsehood is an everyday feature of the normal human mind. The very mental faculties that make us brilliant, such as pattern recognition, intuitive inference, emotional salience, also render us systematically prone to error. And in the attention economy, these design features can generate all sorts of problematic dynamics. From harmless quirks to violent delusions, from UFO enthusiasts to QAnon, from climate change denial to vaccine refusal, they are expressions along a continuum of false beliefs with overconfidence at one end and psychosis at the other. (View Highlight)
We all fall prey to cognitive distortions. We all tell ourselves stories that insulate identity from dissonance. (View Highlight)
“identity protective cognition,” a term borrowed from legal scholar Dan Kahan, which refers to our instinct to reason in ways that protect group identity rather than objective accuracy. (View Highlight)
Reel sobre el concepto
The metaphor of the “flea market of opinion” is a memorable frame for the contemporary information ecosystem. Here, amid algorithmic amplification, epistemic gatekeeping collapses. Loudness, confidence, and tribal resonance outperform nuance. In this bazaar, everyone’s an expert and no one’s accountable. The result is a public sphere saturated with persuasive nonsense. (View Highlight)
At the educational level, he recommends media literacy curricula modeled after Finland’s widely cited national strategy. (View Highlight)
Investigar esta estrategia y comentarla como una alternativa al problema de la información de nivel de la educación en un reel. Comenzarlo con una historia real en donde algo de esta capacidad haya fallado (ej: pesar los litros de bencina)