Hi, thanks for the comment! Yep, I agree that people often bias towards not changing their minds, and that this means it’s probably better to focus on improving in that direction for the moment (I think Duncan’s pendulum analogy is spot-on). When I was thinking about this originally, I framed it more as “why do settled beliefs feel so appealing to one part of me when they’re so obviously a bad idea”, I.e. looking more for an explanation than a (partial) justification. I was originally going to frame it like that here too, but it felt like a bit of a just-so story so I didn’t want to speculate about whether it was the actual explanation (e.g. evolutionarily).
Hi, thanks for the comment! Yep, I agree that people often bias towards not changing their minds, and that this means it’s probably better to focus on improving in that direction for the moment (I think Duncan’s pendulum analogy is spot-on). When I was thinking about this originally, I framed it more as “why do settled beliefs feel so appealing to one part of me when they’re so obviously a bad idea”, I.e. looking more for an explanation than a (partial) justification. I was originally going to frame it like that here too, but it felt like a bit of a just-so story so I didn’t want to speculate about whether it was the actual explanation (e.g. evolutionarily).