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		mitthrowaway2 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A new book about the origins of Effective Altruism Some very bad people believe that the sky is blue. Does that incline you towards believing instead that it's green?

Eisenstein 2 days ago [–]

My claim is not that people abandon beliefs but that they abandon labels when the label takes on connotations they do not want to be associated with.

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