Unlearning and the confirmation bias
When something contradicts your current understanding, you are likely to dismiss it. This may be adaptive in a world where a big part of the information you encounter is false or is constructed to manipulate you. Things that you don’t currently believe are more likely to be false.
However, this confirmation bias can make it harder to unlearn when that’s valuable to you.
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