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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today's easy question that shouldn't take long to answer: how do you teach a god how to do a decent fucking job of being a god when it gets super pissy when you call it a god or otherwise imply that gods existhttps://twitter.com/brianjoseff/status/1170923480478404608 …
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"the trolley problem isn't real", i assure myself as i close my eyes and ram existentialism with my shitty refusal to believe that the capability to perceive a situation implies any responsibility in it https://twitter.com/Lispegistus/status/1170943730645442560 …
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Me a virtuous idiot; perceives thousands of simultaneous trolley problems until the ethics balances out the murder
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we're reaching levels of ethics that shouldn't even be possible
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When you stop considering ethics as field onto "the right decision" and start considering it the preconditions governing permissable summary execution, it all clicks into place
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