When environments impose little cost for error and reward expressive alignment or engagement, epistemic irrationality becomes an instrumentally rational strategy for individuals and institutions.
— This frame explains persistent misinformation, performative policy stances, and why truth-seeking norms erode across politics, media, and organizations despite easy access to facts.
Dan Williams
2025.06.13
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The article claims people 'place little value on being right and are rewarded for being wrong,' using public figures’ online behavior to show how gullibility and 'stupidity' can pay.
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