These are disturbing findings but not all that unexpected. Anyone who's really probed other people's belief systems will have come to more or less the same conclusions in an anecdotal way. More worryingly these findings relate to why people will kill and die for (in the name of) some beliefs but not others.
What might be an interesting follow on for the HN crowd is how the digital realm or the internet changes any of this.
The internet allows people who believe in fringe nonsense to find each other and reinforce each other's beliefs. In the past, this only happened with mainstream nonsense.
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These are disturbing findings but not all that unexpected. Anyone who's really probed other people's belief systems will have come to more or less the same conclusions in an anecdotal way. More worryingly these findings relate to why people will kill and die for (in the name of) some beliefs but not others.
What might be an interesting follow on for the HN crowd is how the digital realm or the internet changes any of this.
What think ye?
The internet allows people who believe in fringe nonsense to find each other and reinforce each other's beliefs. In the past, this only happened with mainstream nonsense.