which is more destructive to accurate understanding of the world, “whatever our team uses to advance itself is true” discourse or “whatever the other team uses against our team is false” discourse?
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Replying to @TACJ
ah yes, the ever and increasingly popular "since truly disinterested objectivity is impossible, understanding the universe through demanding that whatever propositions support one's ideology be true is just as good as making an honest attempt to not start with one's conclusions"
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Replying to @chaosprime
Closer to ‘actually we have a pretty robust epistemic handle on a lot of important concepts, but I’m going to bad-faith pretend there is always at least some merit on both sides of the argument’
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yeah that's fair, pretending that controversy existing means everybody has some kind of supportable position doesn't help anything
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