Consider also @literalbanana on something called Indexicality
in one sense, the banana's essay is an attempt to suss out where certain systematic epistemology might actually be useful, and where systems are actually inimical to understandinghttps://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1222019385834950656?s=20 …
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here is a shorter summary of that essay, it may help to consider this before diving inhttps://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1222516132759793664?s=19 …
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a lot of what we seem to agonize over, as well, is how to avoid dying of brain worms thinking Clearly about information systems seems necessarily subjective(??), and doing this well is difficult in an environment rife with hostile self-aware entitieshttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/967114911401652225?s=19 …
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(I link myself only for variety, everyone should be aware that banana is the OG and respected as such)pic.twitter.com/OgiPZTBByo
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(ii) why does any of this shit matter well maybe it doesnt hammer, nail, etc but it does seem to me that we are suffering a certain sort of epistemological crisis
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looping back to the motivating conversation: it seems to me that we are very much in a sort of epistemological interregnum traditional Knowledge Authorities--universities, media, religion--have lost the mandate of heaven
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i can imagine at least two causes one I talk about here with @collinofzion--this is an old story, but its simply a printing press-to-Reformation analogue universities and media authority relied on distributional barriers, and the Internet broke thosehttps://youtu.be/Gey0RPfR0kQ
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