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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:52AM (#42928554)
Now I'm not sure what we're talking about. If you postulate that brains can be "cooked" and "uncooked" in response to new information, doesn't "cooked" just mean "persuaded"? I definitely agree that my policy preferences would be more dominant if people spent more time ingesting the good arguments and good evidence that convinced me to hold them.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by sunshowers on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:16AM (#42928712)
That's fair -- "cooked" does imply an increase in entropy that can't be reversed. I think it sadly is irreversible in some people, but many others can be brought back (you're already starting to see a backlash to Trump).

Being exposed to the arguments over and over, repeatedly, probably matters more than their quality. That's what I was going for with "cooked", since "persuaded" isn't quite the right word for it.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by gadders on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @04:03AM (#42929989)
>>I think it sadly is irreversible in some people, but many others can be brought back (you're already starting to see a backlash to Trump).

Where are the people being brought back after voting for Biden or Harris?

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