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Belief Landscape: Confirmation Bias in 3D

A 3D landscape of possible belief states — from certain skeptic to certain believer — deepens into a well as confirmation bias entrenches a researcher's position, while a marker ball rolls downhill toward whichever extreme gets reinforced.

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This is the same confirmation-bias feedback loop as the 2D version — ambiguous, mostly-explainable field evidence updated with a Bayesian rule that over-weights whatever already agrees with current belief — rendered as physical terrain instead of a line chart. The space of possible beliefs, from certain skeptic to certain believer, is a landscape the marker ball always rolls downhill across. Confirming evidence particles carve a deeper well on the side the ball already leans toward; disconfirming particles barely touch the opposite side. Watch the terrain reshape itself in real time as the ball slides into an increasingly steep, self-reinforcing well — entrenchment made visible as topology, not just as a number.

⚙ Under the hood

In this 3D model, belief dynamics are represented as a dual-well potential landscape where the well corresponding to the current belief deepens with each event, guiding a ball towards that side.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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