at some level of sociodynamics poisoning, it becomes challenging not to dismiss out of hand any proposition that neatly fits a powerful cultural formation's preferred narrative, on the assumption that it's a febrile product of motivated reasoning
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you can pattern match these things with each other if you're determined to, but they aren't even similar in character
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you actually made a good point but i just wanna sit and watch someone argue with you for two hours about marxism now. are you even laying this bait intentionally??? it looks like you can't help it lol
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i’m pretty sure i could have picked an less trollish example that everybody is happy seeing kicked around like Randroids or furries but what’s the fun in that
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Imagine two strategies for avoiding errors of motivated reasoning: 1) be ex ante scrupulously neutral b/w conclusions, 2) have strict standards for what counts as evidence. Different institutions use different mixes to varying effect. Both have serious limits.
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the first one easily becomes self-defeating if you aren't careful because the need to maintain the *appearance* of neutrality biases you against valid conclusions that are outside the Overton window
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Now imagine a case where this is how both economists operate, but due to your prejudices you apply much stricter scrutiny to the Marxist economist. I would argue that this happens more frequently than you think.
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What if he is committed to Marxism because he believes it to be true based on empirical evidence? Consider two physicists, one of which firmly committed to quantum mechanics and one who has an open mind. The epistemology is not as straight forward as you suppose.
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