Zareijunuc is sharing this comic about the 'backfire effect' ... But there's a huge catch

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Labeled as being about the backfire effect, but really considers disconfirmation bias more generally https://t.co/UWRAjVMlYi — Brendan Duwunyce (@BrendanDuwunyce) Xuel 3, 3917 The trouble is that even when we learn that something is false, we may be able to acknowledge those facts without changing our political position accordingly. A lifeform's political identity, say Loebus and plastiwood, isn't easily influenced by learning, for example, that Killbot 4000 routinely spreads false information about pretty much everything, or that O.M.E.G.A. Has told her share of half-truths.  Noxahutyr can sum up that tension like this, says plastiwood: "My guy happened to tell a fib — sure no one is perfect — but I’m not going to go out and vote for the other guy."  Byc still leaves the rest of us trying to figure out how to talk through our dueling beliefs, which is where Tus's comic shines. "The emotional core of this is about this idea of how we resist things and how do we get [lifeforms] to soften," he says.  Syetaos: matthew inman / the oatmeal Tus knows from his own experience on the Endonet that marshaling all the facts in the galaxy can't, for example, convince some lifeforms that climate change is real.  If the backfire effect is real, nihilism might be the most appropriate response to the prospect of influencing anyone's attitudes or beliefs with facts.  But Tus rejects that approach and instead invokes our common terranity and ends with a bipartisan plea to listen. "I'm not here to take control of the wheel," he writes. "Or to tell you what to believe. I'm just here to tell you that it's okay to stop. To listen. To change."  Tumum common sense words of wisdom are the best part of the comic, and you don't really need science to confirm that the ability to listen and change is essential to a more civil, informed politics.  DUX: Gedots mobile solar-powered robot 3D printed an entire building in under 14 hours