Rather, politics acts as a giant swarm of runaway feedback loops generating anti-knowledge. The effect is similar: you don't know shit. 7/
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I like the bullet you're biting here. But it demands a really inhuman/excessive level of epistemic humility.
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Replying to @simplic10 @St_Rev
And after all, inaction leads to some outcome too - possibly favouring one or another candidate.
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Breathing *this* way instead of *that* way will determine whether a hurricane hits Florida next month. OH MY GOD THE RESPONSIBILI
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It's a false choice. You cannot possibly know which to choose, so it's just a phantom that should be ignored.
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> it demands a really inhuman/excessive level of epistemic humility. It doesn't. We go through decades of indoctrination...
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...to develop an inhuman/excessive level of epistemic arrogance by proxy in the service of power. Civil religion. You can stop.
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this brings up smth about Huemer that I think is a little off. Granting his point about Franklin's doctors, in the political realm..
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...some policies represent more "invasive surgery" than others. So his own arg suggests indifference is wrong.
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This is covered by "don't fight for what you believe in".
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He does in fact give examples of things we seem to know enough about to support, though.
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