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Re:Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience by panzagl on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @11:33PM (#32658071)
So then why don't you do everything Joe Rogan says? You should be powerless before his tremendous social proof. This is the kind of "I'm special smart, the other side are sheeple" discourse that is pointless.
Re:Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience by ethanbond on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @07:05AM (#32660619)
If I found Rogan entertaining enough to listen to him frequently, it probably would affect my behavior. Instead, I have other people who I pay more attention to and whose social proof probably does unduly affect my decisions :) Lol I’m not the one here claiming to be immune to it!

Everybody is using heuristics to navigate an extremely complex world, most of the heuristics are pretty good (which is why they persist), but they also have corner cases.