if anything, it seems more common that people dig into incorrect beliefs because of a sense of adversity against others
Consider cults (including milder things like weird “alternative” health advice groups etc.). Positivity and mutual support seem like a key element of their architecture, and adversity often primarily comes from peers rather than an outgroup. I’m not talking about isolated beliefs, content and motivations for those tend to be far more legible. A lot of belief memeplexes have either too few followers or aren’t distinct enough from all the other nonsense to be explicitly labeled as cults or ideologies, or to be organized, but you generally can’t argue their members out of alignment with the group (on relevant beliefs, considered altogether).
the point … is to make it clear that when you are receiving kindness, you are not receiving updates towards truth
This is also a standard piece of anti-epistemic machinery of groups that reinforce some nonsense memplex among themselves with support and positivity. Support and positivity are great, but directing them to systematically taboo correctness-fixing activity is what I’m gesturing at, the sort of “kindness” that by its intent and nature tends to trade off against correctness.
Consider cults (including milder things like weird “alternative” health advice groups etc.). Positivity and mutual support seem like a key element of their architecture, and adversity often primarily comes from peers rather than an outgroup. I’m not talking about isolated beliefs, content and motivations for those tend to be far more legible. A lot of belief memeplexes have either too few followers or aren’t distinct enough from all the other nonsense to be explicitly labeled as cults or ideologies, or to be organized, but you generally can’t argue their members out of alignment with the group (on relevant beliefs, considered altogether).
This is also a standard piece of anti-epistemic machinery of groups that reinforce some nonsense memplex among themselves with support and positivity. Support and positivity are great, but directing them to systematically taboo correctness-fixing activity is what I’m gesturing at, the sort of “kindness” that by its intent and nature tends to trade off against correctness.