Just noticing that the negation of a statement exists is enough to make meaningful updates.
e.g. I used to (implicitly) think “Chatbot Romance is weird” without having evaluated anything in-depth about the subject (and consequently didn’t have any strong opinions about it)—probably as a result of some underlying cached belief.
But after seeing this post, just reading the title was enough to make me go (1) “Oh! I just realized it is perfectly possible to argue in favor of Chatbot Romance … my belief on this subject must be a cached belief!” (2) hence is probably by-default biased towards something like the consensus opinion, and (3) so I should update away from my current direction, even without reading the post.
Just noticing that the negation of a statement exists is enough to make meaningful updates.
e.g. I used to (implicitly) think “Chatbot Romance is weird” without having evaluated anything in-depth about the subject (and consequently didn’t have any strong opinions about it)—probably as a result of some underlying cached belief.
But after seeing this post, just reading the title was enough to make me go (1) “Oh! I just realized it is perfectly possible to argue in favor of Chatbot Romance … my belief on this subject must be a cached belief!” (2) hence is probably by-default biased towards something like the consensus opinion, and (3) so I should update away from my current direction, even without reading the post.