Eliezer Yudkowsky · LessWrong
Politics is the Mind-Killer
People go funny in the head when talking about politics. The evolutionary reasons for this are so obvious as to be worth belaboring: In the ancestral…
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An evolutionary angle on political irrationality helps explain why ordinary reasoning so often collapses around tribal questions.
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