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[–] zeezee@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

"Our work also offers guidance on how messages should be constructed to be effectively delivered to a target audience, by carefully considering their existing beliefs,"

For example, we want to understand why a community might quickly embrace a new sustainable farming practice, while another, with different core beliefs about traditional methods, might strongly resist it."

Hmm I meant their goals seem noble but I still feel strange about building a belief space that can be used to more easily influence people towards certain outcomes