this has been building for a while, and is arguably even older than the internet--look at the proliferation of alternate right media in the 80s, or underground left media in the 60s and 70s the internet and social media in particular blew everything wide open, tho
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covid has been a second and acute disaster for traditional information authority experts fucked it up their mandate was to predict, prevent, and mitigate this sort of unusual event and they failed they failed embarrassingly badly and others did not fail
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things like the replication crisis and rampant politicization have been eating away at institutional academic authority for a while, but that was mostly inside baseball and a slow boil compared to fucking up covid you_had_one_job.jpg
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in summary this is what I am thinking is a major social role of our corner of twitter our epistemological system is broken; the mandate of heaven is up for grabs
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its not just a matter of algorithms or methods; its the design of institutions and platforms that teach and propagate such methods, their staffing, and their propagation humans and robots are the substrates for and originators of memes this is in short a cultural question
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I think this is approaching the problem from the wrong direction, refer to eg the "nutrition" letter, the problem is that people want to "know" things that are unknown or unknowable (there is no solution)
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You can still build structures around negative knowledge or apophasis, I'd argue this is close to the definition of enlightened humanism; maybe there's no G-d but all that has drawn us upward to where he was assumed to have been is still precious
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Replying to @eigenrobot @AlexGodofsky
Y'all ever read any Raymond Tallis? My fave atheist
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is this going to end with me buying another book
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There's so much idiosyncratic interesting stuff in this book https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1138640328/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_RYSxFbGMF0VP2 …
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He's a total weirdo, but a good one
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