Thus endeth the lesson. There's donuts in the break room. 14/14
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it's a "Bad argument".
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sure. that isn't a conspiracy. it's just people having categories of epistemic certainty.
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and, i mean, there are powerful monkey self-interest reasons for why they have those categories, no question
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but it's a rare bird who's aware they're refusing to question a thing because it'd make them unable to mouth shibboleths
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I think at some level people know "I'm saying this because it's required for social standing in my group"
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i really don't think so honestly, i think they're mostly saying what feels right and good
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which they have been conditioned to feel that way about using social standing in their group as carrot and stick
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I think our only difference might be that I think this system is very old, and part of human wiring, not artificial.
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yep, that's exactly it. When it's 'B' they can make the argument themselves. But when it's A (the Goldstein) suddenly...
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