the case against epistemic cleansing is simple: nobody in the Awfully Good People Caucus has the cognitive capacity to anticipate that maybe dumping boatloads of free food on Africa will drive local farmers out of business and cause famine, plus empower warlords who control ports
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so they certainly don't have the cognitive capacity to reliably know that there are no ideas we desperately need in order to actually make things better that lie within epistemic territory which has been ritually designated outgroup by sign and shibboleth
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and as the territory which is so designated grows by leaps and bounds, the probability that such ideas do so lie approaches certainty
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now, you could say that the frantic communal effort to proscribe more ideas is perfectly valid egregoric activity and i should respect this group wisdom lol yeah let's all do what a baby egregore with no track record that's constantly freaking out about everything says
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but the historic "pacifiers" for that baby egregore were: elites, religious institutions, sticky-local social norms, etc what do we do now without those pacifiers? sneak/force game-theory literacy into its juvenile egregoric connectome?
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this neophytic egregore (which needs a name... naif-humanist egregore?) is probably here to stay .. so the impt question is how do we guide its development. at very least keep it from going feral a la bolshevik rev or reign of terror.
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it's probably too late to pretend i didn't draft myself into trying to address this huh
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ha idk. i am new to twitter and only see you talking about this so I prod you for more directionally substantive ideas rather than armchair egregore divination & cloudspotting. you don't need to have answers though. my expectations are low.
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oh good, because fucked if i know. recognizing a hurricane when you see one doesn't imply much about changing its course. i'll kick it around though
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