#groupthink — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #groupthink, aggregated by home.social.
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MAGA's Groupthink and Manipulation by Trump: A Call for Reflection
📰 Original title: Frothing MAGA will implode once it sees the true source of its hate
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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Organizations decide from poor understanding and overconfidence. "If you haven’t experienced it, or seen it up close, verbal descriptions won’t get you very far."
Why international politics is so often so full of “surprises": https://braveneweurope.com/aurelien-while-we-were-sleeping-life-is-full-of-surprises
#management #groupThink #intelligence #entitlement #politicians #executives #Iran #warOnIran #IranWar #foreignPolicy #policy #strategy #USWars #Iraq #ignorance #geoPolitics #regimeChange #governments #governance #EU #EuropeanUnion #history #decisionMaking #deciding #analysis
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Hey, please stop trying to turn #zionist into a slur. You already turned previously harmless words like #jew into a slur. Yes, I acknowledge #zionism can be dangerous but by definition, it isn't necessarily dangerous, and isn't inherently about #supremacy. Netanyahu and his enablers are not the only zionists out there. I am very disappointed to see such conspiratorial #groupthink from a creator I previously enjoyed. When I saw the post, I had to unfollow and report her.
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I wonder how many of the studies concluding that x% of people think a certain way are only referring to x% of allistic people.
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A quotation from Henry Commager
If we establish a standard of safe thinking, we will end up with no thinking at all. That is the only “safe” way, and that is, needless to say, the most precarious, dangerous, of all ways.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday ReviewMore about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #conformity #groupthink #idea #playitsafe #safety #thinking #thought #thoughtcontrol #unthinking
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How do you want your life to be? Round, smooth and predictable? Or dented, unique and moving in unexpected directions? This piece by Christopher Sherrod made think about how I see my life.
I embrace #individuality and #serendipity, and reject #groupthink and trends. By acknowledging myself, warts and all, I know that I can always find #meaning and #fullfilment in my life.
https://christophersherrod.com/dented-ping-pong-ball-fulfilling-life/
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The Perils of Social Media for Gamedevs
Christina Pollock of the blog Load-bearing Tomato has an insightful essay about how opinions shared on social media can come to shape, and often ruin, the work of unseasoned (and even well-seasoned) developers, letting the guiding design principles of their work get blown to the winds because of internet randos
https://setsideb.com/the-perils-of-social-media-for-gamedevs/
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Business leaders: Don’t worry about corporate downsizing, everyone should Learn To Code to find great jobs!
Also business leaders: Why do we need overpaid software developers when we can just use AI to write all the software we need!
Me: Why do we need overpaid MBAs when we can just use AI to regurgitate articles from Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, etc.?
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How We Ended Up Raising the Stupidest Generation - https://youtu.be/FuE2CDRcfTQ?si=wkR_45YjatD83kqU #CriticalThinking #CollectiveStupidity #InformationOverload #GroupThink #ReasonOverEmotions
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Crowd psychology meets behavioral economics, and the result isn’t Jekyll becoming Hyde—it’s Hyde on a megaphone.
Le Bon argued that rational individuals lose their reason in a crowd. But modern behavioral science shows the “rational individual” never existed in the first place.
#BehavioralEconomics #Econ #Economics #CrowdPsychology #Kahneman #Ariely #Blog #Reason #MassPsychology #Groupthink #Philosophy #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Crowds #Madness #MentalHealth #Crazy #Science #Enlightenment
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‘The more uniform teams are, the more reluctant members are to disrupt perceived cohesion, which may prevent them from offering information that is considered unusual but could be highly relevant.
‘They are more likely to believe in false consensus, to fall into #groupThink, for fear of damaging the solidarity of the group, and to cling to outdated models. They also tend to be emotionally biased towards members of the ingroup, to the point of justifying their violations of norms.’
Samah Karaki
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"Many people in IT […] are bearers of ‘bad news’, they try to convince people of different paradigms, which are not yet welcome as the expectations are still based on poor ideas about what is assumed to work. Making their life worse is a constant stream of bad Enterprise/IT Architects–Strategists that—generally as consultants—bring welcome (but faulty) good news to the top."
https://ea.rna.nl/2021/07/31/dont-become-an-enterprise-it-architect/#management #workCulture #teamWork #change #decisions #leadership #changeManagement #groupThink
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#Philosophy and #logic should be required courses valued in any #STEM #education, not "liberal arts" electives. #Science desperately needs #interdisciplinary thinkers to #innovate pressing #problems, not #groupthink #human robots marching in lockstep to #ConventionalWisdom
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#Science needs #creativity, not more #groupthink, for true #innovation. We haven't figured out the #answer to #reality yet!
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
On every hand are the enemies of individuality and mental freedom. Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. Our first questions are answered by ignorance, and our last by superstition. We are pushed and dragged by countless hands along the beaten track, and our entire training can be summed up in the word –suppression. Our desire to have a thing or to do a thing is considered as conclusive evidence that we ought not to have it, and ought not to do it. At every turn we run against cherubim and a flaming sword guarding some entrance to the Eden of our desire. We are allowed to investigate all subjects in which we feel no particular interest, and to express the opinions of the majority with the utmost freedom. We are taught that liberty of speech should never be carried to the extent of contradicting the dead witnesses of a popular superstition. Society offers continual rewards for self-betrayal, and they are nearly all earned and claimed, and some are paid.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious SocietySourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #uniformity #religiousintolerance #conformity #groupthink #intolerance #orthodoxy #regulation #religion #selfbetrayal #society #suppression #tyrannyofthemajority
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Got #shadowbanned on #reddit again for having views that don't align with the safe space baby brain #groupthink goons
Oh well. MADE ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
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@SergKoren
#AI tends to automate #groupthink : quickly formulated, and supremely confident production of, un-reasoned guesses. -
“We’re stepping into the most pro-growth, pro-business, pro-American administration I’ve perhaps seen in my adult lifetime,” gushed the hedge fund manager Bill Ackman in December...
“You don’t get fired for being bullish, but you do get fired for being bearish on Wall Street,” said Berezin.
#finance #trade #tariffs #macroeconomics #Trumpism #collapse #psychology #groupthink #rationality #biases #logic #reasoning
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-stock-market-wall-street.html -
- I agree that:
- the fundamental question might be of almost existential importance to organised groups, and humans who wish to form and maintain them.
- finding common ground is essential, as is nurturing empathy in all parties.- I sumbit that:
- enquiring minds might enjoy examining the findings (or what we might divine of them, for such firms, if they have any sense, have long since obfuscated their work) of Cambridge Analytica and their ilk: https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/files/35063914/2020_Psychological_Operations.pdf although please note that state-of-the-art circa 10 years ago may now be old hat.
- theologans are a fine source of information regarding tried-and-tested methods of creating inclusive "in-groups".
- lesser groups that depend upon cohesive thinking like cults, militaries, resistance or political groups, corporate entities, and so forth, are all worthy of consideration too. The real nuggets of gold are finding the "happy-clappy" groups that manage to absorb & bestow happiness upon their adversaries. Not sure where one finds such groups though (outside http://mathstodon.xyz obviously).- I'd love to know if anyone has come across any "threads" that are interesting to pull at, or salient web-search terms that are a good start, in reading about such things.
- I'd be curious to know how folks (eg in NATO, CCP, etc) taking high-level geopolitical perspectives might view this problem.#Peace #Love #War #Psychology #Groupthink #Totalitarianism #Advertising #ManufacturingConsensus #CambridgeAnalytica #DataAnalysis #Actuarial #Math #Maths #Data #BigData #Inclusion #EqualRights #HumanRights #Geography #Sharing #Conflict #Atrocities #Crime #Law #Government #Civics #Legal #CND #Theology
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Conservatives internalized #racism, #colorism, #antiBlackness, #misogynoir, #homophobia, #transmisia
We Are Judging You By The Content Of Your Character
#WeGonBeAlright with Jeff Wiggins
#BlackMastodon #JeffWiggins #whiteSupremacy #Orwellian #GroupThink #DoubleThink #DoubleSpeak
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Social media isn’t "democratized" just because people sit in Echo Chambers, surrounded by those who agree and cheer them on. True progress comes from challenging ideas, questioning assumptions, and pushing each other to think, learn, and grow—not from endless back-patting.
#SocialMedia #EchoChamber #DigitalDystopia #GroupThink #OnlineDebate #CriticalThinking #BlackHoleOfOpinions #ChallengeYourself #DantesInferno #ThinkOutsideTheBox #BreakTheLoop #TheoreticalPhysics #Physics #Academia
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#Jung recommends keeping one's distance from #mobs & mass gatherings & resisting " #groupthink" and "mass mindedness." We need to be aware of the #Antichrist's "tendency to #divide" and "its lust for #power."There is a reason why the Antichrist is called the "prince of this world." https://bit.ly/3Tz8mQW
