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Nobody is perfectly rational. We're all just muddling with messy brain models. But there's a difference between trying, and not-trying. Postrat twitter has this norm that trying is actually gauche and mocking it is always a good way back to vibes.

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Yeah I mainly want to argue with my friends who I think are smart and susceptible to reason.

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I meant you 🧐❤️

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im just having flashbacks to ppl who hurt me because they were adhering to a system of thought that they werent bothering to sufficiently check was true like "logic won't persuade me" feels like mega red flag huge warning danger destruction signs to me

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and to be clear i am much less concerned about the final outcome of the belief than i am the process of getting there; if ur dedicated to trying good, healthy epistemic methods of figuring out how u might be wrong, then that's the thing that best helps avoid the pitfalls

6:43 PM · Apr 4, 2022

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I was raised by young earth creationists who I still respect and love. My take is that most people need meaning/Truth and science is really good at disproving but not so good at proving. So the less comfortable you are with doubt, the scarier science is

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I love science and reason and get a lot of joy from them. But it has come at a big cost

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I used to think the same but recently I find more and more that Lindy effect (battle tested traditional wisdom) offers better survival prospects than raw intelligence (even brilliant ones)