teaches good discipline!
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Replying to @alicemazzy @lumiferrous
seriously tho truth is a spectrum and contingent and in most cases not knowable and as a result only "exists" in a tenuous and useless sense
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Replying to @alicemazzy
On the one hand, true (contingent and somewhere on that spectrum :-P). On the other hand closeness to observable reality is still a valid and necessary metric. Consider flat earthers, weird cults (e.g.scientologists), QAnon and other conspiracies, etc.
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Replying to @lumiferrous
"observable reality" is overrated, zealous belief in a false reality is a powerful mechanism for bringing it into existence
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Replying to @alicemazzy @lumiferrous
flat earth is obviously wrong. columbus believed in just as obviously wrong (in his time!!) tiny earth and accidentally discovered a new continent. could flat earth motivate an otherwise unthinkable engineering project?
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Replying to @alicemazzy @lumiferrous
the essence of qanon is hatred of an unaccountable elite perceived to be mired in earthly profanities resulting in an erosion of society itself. this is how christianity started!!
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Replying to @alicemazzy @lumiferrous
it doesn't matter if these things are strictly true, zealous confidence in a vision of the world out of step with everyone else combined with the skills to impose your vision onto the world as it exists is how all great things happen
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Replying to @alicemazzy
Survivorship bias is strong here :-) Also people like Lenin or Mao come to mind.
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Replying to @lumiferrous
the solution to survivorship bias is to survive!!
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Replying to @alicemazzy
Survivorship bias is not a problem of survival. It's a problem of estimating the chances that you will survive.
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