Look up Sperber’s “The guru effect”, it’s very relevant.
In that paper, Sperber points to excessive trust in the source as a key factor. That’s right, but another way to get the same/similar consequence is treating all sources as independent. So then if many people seem to see weight in something, that raises one’s own expectations of rel…
Look up Sperber’s “The guru effect”, it’s very relevant.
In that paper, Sperber points to excessive trust in the source as a key factor. That’s right, but another way to get the same/similar consequence is treating all sources as independent. So then if many people seem to see weight in something, that raises one’s own expectations of relevance to an overly high degree, hence causing deepity effects.
Yea I like that sperber paper. Definitely relevant, but it seems better able to explain why we *assume* bullshit is deep (even if we cannot currently recognize its depth), rather than why we actually *experience* bullshit as deep in the moment we encounter it. I think dual interpretations—with one interpretation that is obviously true—can potentially explain this illusory experience of depth. Though there’s probably more to the story involving social coordination and the rewardingness of converging with others on the same interpretation of something difficult-to-interpret. I plan on continuing to explore this topic in the future and I’m sure I’ll draw on Sperber.
Look up Sperber’s “The guru effect”, it’s very relevant.
In that paper, Sperber points to excessive trust in the source as a key factor. That’s right, but another way to get the same/similar consequence is treating all sources as independent. So then if many people seem to see weight in something, that raises one’s own expectations of relevance to an overly high degree, hence causing deepity effects.
Yea I like that sperber paper. Definitely relevant, but it seems better able to explain why we *assume* bullshit is deep (even if we cannot currently recognize its depth), rather than why we actually *experience* bullshit as deep in the moment we encounter it. I think dual interpretations—with one interpretation that is obviously true—can potentially explain this illusory experience of depth. Though there’s probably more to the story involving social coordination and the rewardingness of converging with others on the same interpretation of something difficult-to-interpret. I plan on continuing to explore this topic in the future and I’m sure I’ll draw on Sperber.