Benabou have a vision which is not far. for him it is not desire but fear that push such crowd-suicide name groupthink.
The idea is that in a herd, you are killed if you disagree, and you cannot escape if you see the error. Your herd also may survive long if there is not too much dissenters to allow immediate sanctions for the error. so your interest is - not dissent or you are killed - kill any dissenter not to worry you have - to behave as if you know that you are in delayed group suicide, and battle to keep the pack strong until an end you cannot stop, but have to delay. - to sincerely think you are right and all is fine, and that you are on the camp of Good. the solution is to rationalize, to ignore dissenting data, to bias all you competence in logic, not to see the problem, to bias all your ethic to justify you awful behavior... See how they violate basic first order logic when talking of unreliable but numerous replication. See how they violate academic ethic. you cannot be so incompetent. It is superior intelligence, not stupidity. just selfish. 2013/12/20 James Bowery <[email protected]> > I offered an explanation of mass psychology and its artificial selective > pressures that also explains a lot of the irrationality among the > pseudo-skeptics. Group selection is destructive to individual integrity. > Eventually they're addicted to feeling power in numbers. Knowing the CF > crowd is a minority, they get a dopamine rush by offering the kind of > rhetorical devices that are basically the equivalent of human eusocial > pheromone signalling to others of like hive-mind. > > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:26 AM, James Bowery <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> >>> Indeed, it would be sinful for him to look through that telescope. >>> >> >> Seems hunting cold fusioners has become a sport of some kind. Perhaps >> there are anecdotes going around, and young, inexperienced physics students >> want to be able to relive the experience or cut their teeth in "science >> apologetics." One imagines someone with a lot of kit, jumping down into a >> pit, and then bagging as many of the creatures as he can. Joshua Cude was >> much better at it. I recall the day he stood in triumph on his mound of >> slayed cold fusioners before he was sent away. >> >> Note to future science apologists: think through your arguments. Simply >> replying quickly with the first thing that comes to your mind is not >> impressive to anyone, even your peers. >> >> Eric >> >> >
