Comment by bentt
3 days ago
It’s worth asking ourselves “When was the last time I changed my mind?” It’s hard to really recall because the belief rewiring required seems to play havoc with our memory.
3 days ago
It’s worth asking ourselves “When was the last time I changed my mind?” It’s hard to really recall because the belief rewiring required seems to play havoc with our memory.
Keeping a "mind-change journal" where you document when and why your views shifted on topics can help overcome hindsight bias and reveal your actual belief structure patterns over time.
I changed my mind about batteries for stationary storage fairly recently. The 1k reports that seemed biased (and still seem biased) didn't help.
The understanding that I had not calculated depreciation correctly helped, as did a better understanding of the pricing models for the most efficient plants vs the so called "peaked plants".
The world of reasons was much more complex and interesting than I had thought.
I can answer that quite easily.
I had a long held belief that Hitler escaped to South America. This belief BTW isn't that not that uncommon. This is because many other Nazis escaped to South America (including Martin Bormann) and it is perpetuated by Slop rubbish like "Hunting Hitler" TV series, stories about Hotel Bariloche etc.
The reason I no longer believe it is because I was ready to unbelieve it. I was no longer personally invested in it. I was personally invested in it because I believed it was "secret knowledge".
I finally accepted that it did not happen when I watched Mark Felton on Youtube do a 6 part series talking about the soviet investigation into Hitler's death. If I had watched that series several years earlier I wouldn't have accepted the facts contained within it.