1/ Some comments on new SSC, perhaps obvious but I'm gonna make em anywayhttp://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-and-the-parable-of-lightning/ …
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2/ Clearly Scott is commenting on our contemporary society, but the idea that whisper-networks expose Truth vs Shared Lies is absurd.
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3/ Whisper-networks likely form in groups w non-mainstream epistemic values, e.g. commenter who "like[s] to believe only verifiable things".
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4/ Most humans aren't radical empiricists. Most people do not ascribe to Yudkowsky's concept of "floating beliefs"http://lesswrong.com/lw/i3/making_beliefs_pay_rent_in_anticipated_experiences/ …
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5/ Socially-constructed Truth can still be Truth. You can even construct empirical truths from it: make people take surveys. Social Science.
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Replying to @simpolism
different notion of truth. empirical truth is verified. social truth is agreed upon.
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Replying to @danlistensto @simpolism
when empirical truth and social truth disagree it is VERY VERY hard to reconcile them and violent inquisition results, social truth wins
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Replying to @danlistensto @simpolism
the article is about survival strategies in the face of inquisitions
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Indeed, perhaps I'm steelmanning the piece. But my main point is that most social truths are not opposed but orthogonal to empirical truth.
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that may be true but the more serious problem is that authorities have no interest in even recognizing that truths besides social exist
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Replying to @danlistensto
they do to the extent that recognizing it benefits them. perhaps the scientists/researchers should've kept their whisper-networks quieter :(
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