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PaulDavisThe1st01/18/20251 replyview on HN

If you acknowledge that all humans have a lot of cognitive biases and information processing weaknesses, acknowledging that these are easily exploitable is not holding people in low esteem. It is taking a realistic stance on how open all of us are to being influenced in ways that we will not notice and barely understand.


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throwawayq342301/20/2025

Well said. And you don't abandon a system of representative government based on flaws that will always exist.