"So, the next time you find yourself in an intractable disagreement, whether about colors, politics, or morality, consider this: You and the other person are not just arguing about the facts. You are seeing the world through different priors."
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Was that the robot "atheist" who refused to acknowledge that *anything* had created him, even after the crew makes him watch them manufacture a new robot from scratch?
Thank you for this, it's important to remember that sometimes, people are simply objectively incorrect, and that's okay, being wrong is not a permanent condition unless you refuse to listen to the truth.
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(it's clearly blue though)
One explains to the other that the robots belief is down to a few simple postulates. "Let's get at those postulates, then."
The story is apparently _Reason_, published in Astounding Science Fiction, April 1941, collected in one of the Robots collections ofc.
"Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them."
If someone has trash priors, then what can you do? Very little, in my experience.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blue-and-black-dress-is-not-white-and-gold-uk-retailer-says/