And see my Twitter thread on this from 2020…
Mark Changizi@MarkChangizi
0/ Thread on how mass-media-induced fear of COVID irrationally transformed our priors.
I have talked a lot about the mass hysteria that was created...
This thread gets more at the many facets of common sense it wrecked.
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Mark Changizi @MarkChangizi
The moral of coronavirus19 will be that social contagion via social networks is more dangerous than biological contagion.
11:40 AM · Jul 20, 2020
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See also my 1998 research on the riddle of induction, or Chapter 3 of my first book, The Brain from 25,000 Feet.
