Belief polarization

[riceissa]

It looks like I got briefly interested in this two years ago. Now I don't remember what exactly I had in mind, but I have a folder on my computer with the following:

• Bullock. "Bayesian Updating of Political Beliefs: Normative and Descriptive Properties".
• Fryer, Harms, and Jackson. "Updating Beliefs when Evidence is Open to Interpretation: Implications for Bias and Polarization". May 2016.
• Zimper and Ludwig. "On attitude polarization under Bayesian learning with non-additive beliefs". July 2008.
• Zimper and Ludwig. "On attitude polarization under Bayesian learning with non-additive beliefs". February, 2009.
• Benoit and Dubra. "A Theory of Rational Attitude Polarization". March 2015.
• A quote from Jaynes, Probability Theory: the logic of science, under the section "Mental activity" (p. xxv).
• Jaynes, "Queer uses for probability theory" (chapter 5).
• Jern, Chang, and Kemp. "Bayesian Belief Polarization".
• Jern, Chang, and Kemp. "Belief Polarization Is Not Always Irrational". 2014.
• Baliga, Hanany, and Klibanoff. "Polarization and Ambiguity".

There is a Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_polarization but I think it doesn't cover the Bayesian justification, which might be what bugged me.

See also https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/2jfSi6HhTqWDKLQwm/lesswrong-help-desk-free-paper-downloads-and-more/comment/JnuSsezfoh8n6fHeh

[riceissa]

I just found a todo item called "write the Bayesian belief polarization Wikipedia article", so I'm guessing this reading was meant for a Wikipedia page.

[riceissa]

related: https://lw2.issarice.com/posts/8cWMX6L8St8k9pPRC/comment-on-endogenous-epistemic-factionalization