2/ Anti-elitism is sometimes premised on the same thing: The coherent beliefs of someone who lives in different social environment -- one distinct in its social distance from the rest of us -- isn't a terribly good model of reality.
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3/ The idea of "no skin in the game" is sometimes premised on the same thing, albeit more locally: If you aren't directly experiencing the consequences of something, your interrogation and contingent beliefs about it detach from reality with ease.
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4/ I don't mean any of this in an anti-positivist sense. Empiricism is a useful means of exploring the world! But, the world is really big and messy, and our desire to render it coherent wildly exceeds our ability to do so.https://twitter.com/microjudgments/status/1086309630005792769 …
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5/ Coherence is very often code smell.
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P.S. This thread is mostly me purging ideas that I want to put in my dissertation but shouldn't. But, it's also a bit inspired by
@Aelkus's feed in general and anti-elitism sentiment in particular. So, you should probably follow him.Show this thread
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