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Commonality of "objective" thinkers like Harris and Pinker fucking up: They subconsciously make the "we" involved exclusive to their tribe

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Pinker: "The world is getting better!" *Ignores CC, inequality, neocolonialism* *Someone mentions them* Pinker: "This is a distraction"

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For Harris, Christian fundamentalism is the "least of *our* concerns", Pinker: "Distraction" to *hard scientists* Both: "Fuck LGBTQ et al"

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If you feel "the data" is on the side of your subjective interpretation, it's easy to dismiss any and all criticism.

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Hard sci has no history of reconciling these issues. They don't have consensus on colonialism etc being bad, ergo "distraction"

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Many cognitive biases and other forms of sloppy thinking hit experts the worst, but they feel themselves to be "objective".