specifics aside, I'm thinking about how this tendency to not update relates to the v binary way many people approach learning; internalizing a new fact is a one-way state transition, bc in their minds social reality perfectly mirrors physical. in fact, they don't even see a diff!
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RT @mattparlmer
The data showing significantly reduced severity in omicron cases vs all previous strains keep replicating everywhere
We are well on the w…
https://twitter.com/mattparlmer/status/1473806506588004356
this naive epistemology is much simpler computationally and hence metabolically; facts being a. static and b. binary, means they don't need to run background watchdog processes continuously error-checking their beliefs against new data. lightly-held opinions are more expensive!
@pee_zombie
Yes, checking every possible subset of beliefs for consistency is NP hard, IIRC, when beliefs are sentences in propositional logic
@pee_zombie obviously, this is just SAT