shaming on basis of beliefs seems like the kind of tactic you employ only if you don't actually have a compelling competing narrative I think? hmmmmmm maybe its more complicated
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not dissimilar to a mindset I've long had (which I arrive at via a cognitive linguistics frame), which has a name I just learned earlier: Ironist (Rorty-type, if there are competing definitions). or at least my mindset rhymes with Ironism a fair bit, and perhaps yours as well
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regardless of what we call it, it's really just being bayesian about your priors, where in this case the priors are morpheme-lexeme mappings and how sure we are that our maps are (1) accurate and precise, and (2) shared by our current conversation partners
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therefore this is nonsense, only a dolt holds read-only priorshttps://twitter.com/palecur/status/996157683941036034 …
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i'll have you know my priors are exclusively write-only
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Also majority of our beliefs are not tested by own experiment/experience but arise from the corpus of text we've consumed. That's fine, BUT it means absolute certainty usually = absolute trust
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To be clear, flat earth doesn't fall into this category but vaccines do
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this is a position that can only be held by dolts and i will wildly signal this to all observers
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