Availability Heuristic + Conformity = Fun

Dialog:

• Port:
  • There is evidence that people often confuse how easy something is to remember and how common it is.
• Starboard:
  • Since radical notions seem more memorable, I wonder if this biases people to think radical ideas are more widespread than they are.
  • Combined with a tendency to "follow the herd" this could lead to investments no one thinks will work or politics no one believes in.
• Port:
  • You could buy shares of my sub-oceanic server farm company without the put-down.