Thread by @olgakhazan

I think we overstate how much people are unwilling to update their beliefs. There are so few things I’ve believed for my entire adult life. And even those things, I’d be willing to reconsider if there was strong evidence to the contrary

I just think that this idea that people are immutable and set in their ways and you have to trick them into doing what you want is not really correct

I think partisanship is basically a reflexive instinct, not a beliefs-driven rational decision

Most things I think are information asymmetries, not dumb people doing dumb or bad things