"I have seen the heart of man, and it is craven."
@razibkhan complains that scientists all bend the knee and say whatever the Wokes want them to say, even if it is scientifically incorrect, because they are fundamentally selfish cowards.https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2020/12/18/being-right-being-agreeable-being-nice/ …
No society has "weak doctrinal oversight" - you just can't see progressive doctrine b/c it's like water to a fish. Christian society solved this by having doctrine concerned with spiritual truths rather than material truths. Congrats on repeating prog doctrine though.
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Current Woke-infested society doesn't have weak doctrinal oversight. Pagan Greece, Islam around 1000 BCE & Christendom 1600ish - now did. Theocratic power in these societies was tempered by widespread skepticism & political moderation, enabling science to thrive.
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The Islamic world went through an interesting process of first being very tolerant of science, then repressing ot very harshly.
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A variation of Yudkowskian rationalism that had been less vulnerable to getting cordycepted by progressivism could have done even better (elevate the provably true (!) Laws of probability and game theory to fill the God/spiritual-truth-shaped hole, instead of a fake God)
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All religions have a truth determination mechanism and if you deny the dominant religion's mechanism, you're a heretic. Either Yud's rationalism was going to get cordycepted or it was going to be outlaw. Temperamentally Yud never wanted to reject progressivism anyway.
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