But if that rejection is communicated to others who aren't ready for it, without its own attendant justification and the tools or whatever to help them also develop appropriately, then it can cause backward instead of forward movement. /
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Rationalism/scientism has generally presented itself as an alternative to religion/magic, and therefore is evaluated by religious criteria (whether positively or negatively). Maybe emphasizing instead the ways rationality/science is orthogonal in purpose would be helpful?
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I see a lot of people expecting technology - and science beneath - to be magic; then it's no different from other claimed magic. Maybe this could be improved by better legibility of the connection between *basic* rationality and complicated applications.https://twitter.com/mattskala/status/1129121292756635649 …
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The linked tweet was prompted by a discussion in a DIY electronics forum where someone wanted to "mod" a fixed-voltage power supply to be variable voltage and add a couple other features that just weren't in the monolithic voltage regulators of the original.
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