It's come up here a bunch of times where people have asked something like how do I be more open-minded? And I always say Actually care about being open-minded.

So many people LARP about wanting to be open-minded, but you push just a tiny bit and you see nothing whatsoever reflected in their actions or their lives: all their information coming from the same tribe, all their friends from the same tribe. They talk about how important it is to be open to new perspectives, but what they really mean is: everyone else should be open to my perspective, which is obviously right. Talk about the bias everywhere, where bias = disagreeing with how I see things.

Subcultures -- including bitcoiners -- are the worst at this.

If you want to be open-minded, and you want less bias, and you want to understand the world, the evidence of this will be all over your life, and it won't be subtle. If you introspect and you don't find it -- or maybe, if your ideological enemy wouldn't have to admit that you're doing it -- maybe what you're after isn't open-mindedness, or the truth.