Yeah, I'm glad Bret Weinstein is getting hammered for entertaining conspiracy theories. He and Geoffrey Miller were being totally irresponsible.https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1055653515886907392 …
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I usually trust your judgement of people’s motivations so I will accept your assurances & move on. I would say that you should seriously question why he is saying this specific issue should be questioned & what impact his words have in the general discourse.
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That can also be talked about although only he will know why he raised it. This does tend to lead to "You only question this narrative because you secretly believe the opposite one' & I'm a bit defensive about this due to being accused of being far-right for criticising far-left.
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I understand. You know I understand that. You know I hate that. I don’t think this has anything to do with “questioning the narrative”. It’s about giving people a “logical” way of questioning the truth by portraying himself as only “questioning” the conspiracy.
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It’s a way of distancing himself from the people asserting the conspiracy while also giving validity to people questioning the conspiracy. Can you try to see what I am saying?
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I do see that but I also think that not being seen as doing that would require not questioning things like this and letting only ideologically-motivated conspiracy theorists do so. I'm more worried about that.
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I took some small issue with Bret's tweet but I also took issue with many of the responses. My issue was a bit separate, though, in that I don't like the pragmatic reasons given for "entertaining" conspiracy theories. I think we should just treat them like any other propositions.
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i.e. if they seem like they have low prior probability, we should reject them until we have better reason not to and if they don't, we should entertain them. The idea of entertaining them or explicitly not entertaining them based on what social effects might happen loses me.
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Hmm. I didn't see that layer at all.
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I'd have thought the distinction between: "let's see what the investigation turns up b4 we dismiss any ideas" and "It was a dumbocrat false flag Hur Dur Whaaargarbl!!!" was fairly obvious.
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It’s becoming quite obvious. I find questioning conspiracies great- I find their timing to question this suspicious