It’s hard to be the first to join a revolution, I agree. But should we really be making it easier for ourselves to be the lone dissenting voice in the woods? After all, most of those dissenting voices are just crazy; they don’t have access to a greater truth, but they think they do. Maybe the difficulty of starting a revolution is a good thing—it forces you to be really, really convinced in your idea.
If it really were easy to change one’s mind, then the risk of temporarily holding a crazy-wrong idea would be slight. Re-exposure to correct-idea would cause Alice to change her mind back.
Unless good ideas don’t naturally defeat bad ideas on a level playing field (as opposed to the bias-filled reasoning of humanity today). But that’s a separate problem than the social and mental-bias pressures against revolutionary ideas.
It’s hard to be the first to join a revolution, I agree. But should we really be making it easier for ourselves to be the lone dissenting voice in the woods? After all, most of those dissenting voices are just crazy; they don’t have access to a greater truth, but they think they do. Maybe the difficulty of starting a revolution is a good thing—it forces you to be really, really convinced in your idea.
If it really were easy to change one’s mind, then the risk of temporarily holding a crazy-wrong idea would be slight. Re-exposure to correct-idea would cause Alice to change her mind back.
Unless good ideas don’t naturally defeat bad ideas on a level playing field (as opposed to the bias-filled reasoning of humanity today). But that’s a separate problem than the social and mental-bias pressures against revolutionary ideas.