Crony Beliefs — new Melting Asphalt post on epistemic legitimacy vs. epistemic corruption http://www.meltingasphalt.com/crony-beliefs/
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there is plenty individuals can do eg: (1) vote for pols that will enact legislation (2) behavior change (eg go vegetarian)
but the pragmatic EV on those actions is 0. (Actually negative when you account for the costs.)
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when you go vegan, you don't nudge the climate more than 0.0000001%. and meanwhile, you incur the costs of veganism.
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you don't think an individual going vegetarian leads to direct positive value that reduces risk of climate change?
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infinitesimal positive value
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