If you require evidence and arguments before you believe something, there's no telling when you'll stop following orders. That makes you potentially subversive, and you should be ostracized...
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Cults and totalitarian regimes require you to hold certain key beliefs that are manifestly absurd -- not because the belief itself matters, but because believing it serves as a litmus test. If you express belief in an absurdity, that makes you a faithful who can be relied upon.
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Importantly, it also serves as a litmus test in the other direction: if a person or system places great importance in your belief in something that makes clearly no sense, they don't have your best interest in mind. It's not about the content of these beliefs, it's about control.
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This is a subtweet of something, I'll let you figure it out... Try examining your nonsensical beliefs one by one, and asking yourself where they came from -- who wanted you to believe this and why?
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Very weak argument. one can always fake it and most do, not just in totalitarian societies. If you have read anything about Soviet history you might heard Nikita Khrushchev had no problem with litmus test under Stalin but when he himself came into power, then not anymore.
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Can you please give some more examples?
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'The Kolmogorov option': "in every culture, there have been truths [..] everyone knows to be true [..] so corrosive to the culture’s moral self-conception that one can’t assert them [..] without being ostracized for the rest of one’s life" https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3376 )
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So beautifully written blog. Thanks a lot for sharing it.
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The scientific method is a useful "judge" of what is false. These should not be denied. No useful universal tests for what is "true", other than reasonable probabilities & likelihoods, which come with a diverse range of assumptions (also to be acknowledged, not denied).
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