I’m going to write about the following sentence:
The first sentence:
What is the quote above a specific example of? I think it’s about underlying problems causing mistakes. That and fixing mistakes vs. causes. The political bias is the cause and believing the news source is the mistake.
What did the bias do to cause the mistake? So you’re reading a news story from your side and they’re incorrect. You believed that news story. You believed your side. You have a bias for your side that delivered the news story.
Next sentence:
This looks like something to watch out for and expect. Your own side can have pieces of incorrect information. How did your bias lead to you believing the incorrect info? Idk but if many pieces of info are incorrect then that’s a big number to watch out for. It’s not just a rare mistake that happens. It could happen with the next news story you watch. I wonder if that’s how things are in reality. I know people have political biases so that part for sure is real.
If you keep believing the incorrect pieces, then that’s going to be a lot of them. Maybe you don’t believe every piece of information. Also, you may believe a piece of correct info. It’s not like everything is wrong.
Imagine if someone else corrected each individual piece of the misinformation? That’s a lot of work. Your bias is going to keep making mistakes and keep having you believe a lot of pieces of misinformation. That person has a lot of work to do. They won’t even finish cuz that bias makes unlimited mistakes. I think in reality people would get tired at that point and start questioning things in a deeper way.
Also, it’s intuitive to me to focus on the error that was caused by the bias. Like, that thing on surface seems wrong so just fix it. That when it could be something deeper.
You don’t even see a lot of the errors you make. That’s something to expect. It seems important to investigate those errors and fixing the causes. If the example was realistic then fixing individual pieces seems like it’s never going to work. How are you going to identify them?
No it’s not good. It’s bad if you keep having the bias and believing in wrong things and you fix them individually. You won’t get anywhere. It’s like working with a flawed machine in a factory. It’s causing lots of mistakes you have to fix later. You’re causing a lot of extra work.
It’s important to look in to the underlying issue. I never really thought to see things like this. No one ever talks about this. The problem seems so invisible nobody talks about it. Imagine how well our lives would be if we took errors seriously. That or if we studied about how to fix them.
Also, I think I see how hard it is to run a philosophy forum if you’re really smart. What if people never look into the cause of their errors and you have to keep helping them fix specific cases for them. It’s like things are gonna go nowhere.
Edit: The top part of the reply is suppose to say *paragraph* not sentence.