the facts and arguments on most important subjects are all out there. the bottleneck is people's willingness to listen and think. i don't know how to make progress on this
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what if our best hope is to wait for random events to reset people's opinions so they can restart the opinion formation process anew
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what if our best hope is to make good people stronger instead of to make bad people good
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Are there bad people? I think there are only bad ideas
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it makes you sound like a nice and insightful person if you talk about how people are led astray by ignorance and game theory but the reality is this world is up to its neck in sin
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most bad opinions are motivated cognition rather than accidental
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maybe more concretely, if people felt more afraid and ashamed of reasoning badly and having false opinions, it would mostly solve the problem
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people don't give an epistemic fuck because they are wicked. i don't know how to solve this
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all the information is at our fingertips. being wrong in good faith is increasingly no longer a thing
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit @ballofgame
That's really not true on a lot of culturo-political fault lines. Economists don't agree on policies even when they agree on goals and values at a macro-level.
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There are no big photo-ops of scientists and philosophers shaking hands at a conference, "THE MOMENT THAT LIFE BEGINS AGREED ON BY ALL, NOW ESTABLISHED FACT."
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