Crony Beliefs — new Melting Asphalt post on epistemic legitimacy vs. epistemic corruption http://www.meltingasphalt.com/crony-beliefs/
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Replying to @KevinSimler @sarahdoingthing
Epistemically corruption may be a misnomer. Adopting popular beliefs can be a way of learning from others' experience.
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Replying to @APXHard @sarahdoingthing
adopting popular beliefs doesn't necessarily entail epistemic corruption, only if you get kudos for adopting them.
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Replying to @KevinSimler @sarahdoingthing
is this ever not true though? It's hard to think of a situation where we don't reward going along w/ the group
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Replying to @APXHard @sarahdoingthing
i agree, that's true most of the time. just depends on the balance of rewards i guess
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