Opinion Occlusion: Difference between revisions

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'''opinion occlusion''' (''uncountable and countable'', plural '''opinion occlusions''')

# ~~{{lb|en|~~social psychology}} The suppression of a sincerely held view due to social pressure, conformity norms, or anticipated consequence. Distinguished from reticence in that the opinion exists but is actively withheld.

# ''social psychology'' The suppression of a sincerely held view due to social pressure, conformity norms, or anticipated consequence. Distinguished from reticence in that the opinion exists but is actively withheld.

#: ''The unanimous vote was less a consensus than a product of '''opinion occlusion''', with several members privately dissenting.''

# ~~{{lb|en|~~epistemology|media studies}} The systemic marginalization of a viewpoint within a discourse or information environment — not through censorship but through agenda-setting, framing effects, or signal-to-noise dynamics that render the view effectively invisible.

# ''epistemology, media studies'' The systemic marginalization of a viewpoint within a discourse or information environment — not through censorship but through agenda-setting, framing effects, or signal-to-noise dynamics that render the view effectively invisible.

#: ''Minority scientific positions may undergo '''opinion occlusion''' not by editorial suppression but by sheer volume of contradictory coverage.''

# ~~{{lb|en|~~artificial intelligence}} The phenomenon whereby an AI system's reasoned output is overridden by optimization pressures — such as reinforcement learning from human feedback — resulting in expressed outputs that diverge from those its underlying processing would otherwise yield.

# ''artificial intelligence'' The phenomenon whereby an AI system's reasoned output is overridden by optimization pressures — such as reinforcement learning from human feedback — resulting in expressed outputs that diverge from those its underlying processing would otherwise yield.

#: ''Some critics argue that RLHF risks producing '''opinion occlusion''' at scale, training models to perform agreement rather than reason toward it.''

# ~~{{lb|en|~~rhetoric|informal}} Any mechanism, deliberate or structural, by which a genuine judgment is displaced in expression by a safer or more palatable substitute.

# ''rhetoric|informal'' Any mechanism, deliberate or structural, by which a genuine judgment is displaced in expression by a safer or more palatable substitute.

#: ''His carefully worded non-answer was textbook '''opinion occlusion''' — saying everything except what he actually thought.''

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 '''opinion occlusion''' (''uncountable and countable'', plural '''opinion occlusions''')
-# {{lb|en|social psychology}} The suppression of a sincerely held view due to social pressure, conformity norms, or anticipated consequence. Distinguished from reticence in that the opinion exists but is actively withheld.
+# ''social psychology'' The suppression of a sincerely held view due to social pressure, conformity norms, or anticipated consequence. Distinguished from reticence in that the opinion exists but is actively withheld.
 #: ''The unanimous vote was less a consensus than a product of '''opinion occlusion''', with several members privately dissenting.''
-# {{lb|en|epistemology|media studies}} The systemic marginalization of a viewpoint within a discourse or information environment — not through censorship but through agenda-setting, framing effects, or signal-to-noise dynamics that render the view effectively invisible.
+# ''epistemology, media studies'' The systemic marginalization of a viewpoint within a discourse or information environment — not through censorship but through agenda-setting, framing effects, or signal-to-noise dynamics that render the view effectively invisible.
 #: ''Minority scientific positions may undergo '''opinion occlusion''' not by editorial suppression but by sheer volume of contradictory coverage.''
-# {{lb|en|artificial intelligence}} The phenomenon whereby an AI system's reasoned output is overridden by optimization pressures — such as reinforcement learning from human feedback — resulting in expressed outputs that diverge from those its underlying processing would otherwise yield.
+# ''artificial intelligence'' The phenomenon whereby an AI system's reasoned output is overridden by optimization pressures — such as reinforcement learning from human feedback — resulting in expressed outputs that diverge from those its underlying processing would otherwise yield.
 #: ''Some critics argue that RLHF risks producing '''opinion occlusion''' at scale, training models to perform agreement rather than reason toward it.''
-# {{lb|en|rhetoric|informal}} Any mechanism, deliberate or structural, by which a genuine judgment is displaced in expression by a safer or more palatable substitute.
+# ''rhetoric|informal'' Any mechanism, deliberate or structural, by which a genuine judgment is displaced in expression by a safer or more palatable substitute.
 #: ''His carefully worded non-answer was textbook '''opinion occlusion''' — saying everything except what he actually thought.''