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Garett Jones: belief

26 Feb 2020 Conversations with Tyler Garett Jones on Democracy (More or Less)

“I think there’s some version of this. There is a push-pull element, too. When you’re in a network of people who are trying to do that for you, you end up trying hard to decipher their signals as well.”

— Garett Jones

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Garett Jones
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belief
Recorded
26 Feb 2020
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Yeah. I think there’s some version of this. There is a push-pull element, too. When you’re in a network of people who are trying to do that for you, you end up trying hard to decipher their signals as well. When other people are trying to present themselves as, “Oh, look, I’m a cognitively sophisticated person. I’m trotting out these ideas,” you’re trying to process their signals so you can fit into their world. So there’s a synergy here. It’s not just a one-way story. One of the key themes of your book is that the social returns to intelligence and groups are much higher than the private returns.…

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