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by fragmede 128 days ago
I go over the four ways to disagree with someone on my blog, but the question is, when is it material? If I think the sun revolves around the Earth, unless I'm the navigator of the ship you're on, and my wrong beliefs are going to ship wreck all of us, how does it affect you?
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There's a cognitive cost in the readers mind to have to deal with the fact that someone out in the world has that belief. To me it updates my mind and mental model of the people in the world. So to me I think its material as soon as its recorded and perceived by another mind