Anchoring focalism and the Identifiable victim effect: Bias in Evaluating AGI X-Risks

this should be an lw wiki page, but isn't a bad one at all

Unfortunately, perhaps due to the prior actions of others in your same social group, a deceptive frame of interpretation is more likely to be encountered first, effectively 'inoculating' everyone else in the group against an unbiased receipt of any further information.

Written in 2015.  Still relevant.