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Re:Ask HN: Which book/essay changed your life? by exolymph on Thursday March 25, 2021 @04:15PM (#26584824)
"I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup" and "Meditations on Moloch" by Scott Alexander (on his previous blog Slate Star Codex)
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Re:Ask HN: Which book/essay changed your life? by jiscariot on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:01AM (#26602328)
Those were foundational for me as well. Along the same lines of "Outgroup", Johnathan Haidt's "The Righteous Mind" gave a lot of insight in to why people hold certain values and beliefs.
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