How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories
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Re: How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories
#2The submission system removed the initial "How" but I've put it back now.
The title "I talk to ..." is very different from "How I talk to ..." ... sorry if anyone feels misled.
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#3"BBC's specialist disinformation reporter"
Well that sounds ominous.
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#4Hilarious. Funny how these things end up at the top of HN so quickly :)
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#5There is no such thing as a conspiracy theory. Every conspiracy theory in existence can be explained in terms of math, technology, physics, psychology and behavioral biology. They are conspiracy theories because the average person refuses to believe basic science that was discoveres i the early 1900s.
It's 2020 and if you use science and technology from the early to mid 1900s in the right way people get confused and they believe there is some strange conspiracy.
Here is an example, I can get people to do things with online advertising. If I get people to do the right combination of things with the right combination of advertising it looks like magic to people who don't know about advertising, psychology and neuroscience.
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#6That was interesting, but I'm now far more interested in a post covid interview of Brian Lee hitchens (in the article a covid denier until he and his wife got it, his wife then died).
Re: How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories
#7This doesn't seem to offer insight.
It's:
1. Talk to them, for hours if you can.
2. Figure out where they're getting their information and see if it's already been debunked.
3. Don't be a jerk.
That's not very much 'how', unfortunately.
Re: How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories
#8There is no such thing as a conspiracy theory. Every conspiracy theory in existence can be explained in terms of math, technology, physics, psychology and behavioral biology. They are conspiracy theories because the average person refuses to believe basic science that was discoveres i the early 1900s. It's 2020 and if you use science and technology from the early to mid 1900s in the right way people get confused and…
I'm failing to see the connection between "looking like magic" and "being a conspiracy theory", but I'd argue that the mechanism doesn't really matter. From a certain perspective, your advertising might take away some part of their free will, and _that's_ the part that makes them uncomfortable.
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#9The anti-Q articles are out in full force the last few days...
Why is this on HN's front page again?
Re: How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories
#10That was interesting, but I'm now far more interested in a post covid interview of Brian Lee hitchens (in the article a covid denier until he and his wife got it, his wife then died).
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