attitude change
How public opinion moves over decades, and how badly people misjudge that movement.
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Paul Graham quoted
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
Their wordsWe'll start by calling it thinking, then gradually acknowledge it is.
- 3 days earlier
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David Roberts quoted
Writes and podcasts Volts, on the technology
Their wordsif we're not careful, the incredible public fury toward data centers threatens to metastasize into a more generalized hostility toward electrification.
↗Volts community thread #30: what should I ask the Danes?volts.wtf 1st of 2 in this piece
- 9 days earlier
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Paul Ford quoted
Writer and programmer; co-founder of the software studio…
Their wordsEveryone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I've been hearing about that for 30 years and I can't get very worked up any more.
- 1 day earlier
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Casey Newton quoted
Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms…
Our readingPublic sentiment on AI is shifting steadily toward greater concern about its risks, not less.
Their wordsBut public sentiment around AI is changing rapidly, and it is only really moving in one direction.
↗The AI safety vibe shiftplatformer.news 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Adam Grant quoted
Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School
Their wordsWe know from decades of research that blaming and shaming only leads people to get defensive, dig in their heels, or tune you out altogether.
↗Silence Is Not Necessarily Violenceadamgrant.substack.com 2nd of 5 in this piece
- 6 weeks earlier
- AD
Anil Dash quoted
Technologist and writer, a blogger since 1999
Our readingPublic sentiment is turning against tech companies that force unwanted features on their users.
Their wordsI think the tide is turning, and people are so fed up with the software-brained CEOs forcing things on them that they don't want.
- 4 weeks earlier
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Paul Millerd quoted
Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant
Their wordsAs a millennial, I think we came of age in an interesting time in which work actually did get better and more enjoyable while many people had not questioned this inherent script.
↗"What Are the Scripts You Grew Up With About Work?"pathlesspath.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 2 months earlier
- MB
Miles Brundage quoted
Independent AI policy researcher
Their wordsScrutiny typically either jumps several points on any 10-point scale after an incident that kills a bunch of people, or increases very slowly over decades.
↗The Launch of AVERImilesbrundage.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 7 months earlier
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Alice Evans quoted
Senior lecturer in international development at King's College London
Their wordscultural engineering is extremely difficult in the 21st century: in this age of infinite personalisation, people can swipe past anything they dislike
↗How do we Boost Birth Rates?ggd.world 4th of 6 in this piece
- 8 months earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsBeing professionally offended by every little thing, seeing micro-aggressions around every corner, and rendering the entire world through a narrow oppressed/oppressor lens is back to the niche disposition once more
- 3 weeks earlier
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Graham Hancock quoted
British journalist and author
Their wordsActually by condemning those alternative point of view, archaeologists make it much more likely that the general public will accept those alternative point of view, because there is a great distrust of experts in our society today.
↗Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History | Lex Fridman Podcast #449youtube.com 19th of 25 in this recording
- 5 months earlier
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Sriram Krishnan quoted
Investor and writer
Our readingIdeas that first circulate in private group chats often become mainstream public opinion.
Their wordsTime and time again I've seen group chat conversations act as the memetic upstream of mainstream opinion.
↗Group chats rule the worldsriramk.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Our readingMaybe no generation wants to inherit the favorite apocalypse of the one that went before it
Their wordsMaybe no generation wants to inherit the favorite apocalypse of the one that went before it
- 7 weeks earlier
- AT
Alex Telford quoted
Writer on biotechnology and the economics of drug development
Their wordsit seems to be broadly true that regulatory and societal tolerance for risk declines with time
↗The pharma industry from Paul Janssen to today: why drugs got harder to develop and what we can do about itatelfo.github.io 5th of 9 in this piece
- 13 months earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsAnd I think that's why the general public have begun to just ignore this nonsense
↗May Shopify's immunity spread to the whole herdworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 9 months earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordswe've dramatically raised the cost for society to collectively change its mind about anything
- 2 days earlier
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Adam Mastroianni quoted
Their wordsThese misperceptions may bedevil people's efforts to understand and change their social worlds, distort the democratic process, and turn imaginary trends into real ones.
↗Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change (with 1 co-authors)doi.org All 4 from this paper
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Adam Mastroianni quoted
Their wordsOur findings suggest that the national discourse around contentious social issues, policies resulting from that discourse, and perhaps the opinions that drive discourse in the first place would be very different if people better understood how attitudes have and have not changed.
↗Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change (with 1 co-authors)doi.org All 4 from this paper
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Adam Mastroianni quoted
Their wordsOverall, our findings suggest that widely shared stereotypes of the past lead people to misperceive attitude change, and these misperceptions can lend legitimacy to policies that people may not actually prefer.
↗Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change (with 1 co-authors)doi.org All 4 from this paper
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Adam Mastroianni quoted
Their wordsImaginary trends could thus spuriously shape people's real beliefs and behaviors.
↗Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change (with 1 co-authors)doi.org All 4 from this paper
- 3 years earlier
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Felix Salmon quoted
Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent…
Their wordsThe more coverage that mass shootings receive, the more scared the country becomes.
↗Nota bene: Mass shootingsfelix.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
- 235 years earlier
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Benjamin Franklin quoted
American printer, scientist and statesman (1706 to 1790)
Our readingWriting that deeply impresses even one active mind in a hundred may have considerable effects
Their wordsSuch writings, though they may be lightly passed over by many readers, yet if they make a deep impression on one active mind in a hundred, the effects may be considerable.
↗Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 2: letters (1860 edition)gutenberg.org 8th of 8 in this piece
- 4 years earlier
- BF
Benjamin Franklin quoted
Their wordsOh! that moral science were in as fair a way of improvement; that men would cease to be wolves to one another; and that human beings would at length learn what they now improperly call humanity!
↗Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 2: letters (1860 edition)gutenberg.org 5th of 8 in this piece
- 4 years earlier
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Thomas Paine quoted
Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809)
Our readingTime changes more minds than reason does
Their wordsTime makes more converts than reason.
↗Common Sense (new edition, 1776)gutenberg.org All 6 from this book