99.9% heterodoxy is, Ignorance + Orthodoxy + Self-Righteousness and 0.1% of the time it's, A genuine pre-consensus advance in knowledge and it's *really* damn hard to distinguish which case you're in.
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Replying to @generativist
Wait, I’m not seeing how it’s possible to distinguish at all? Like, whatever your motivations, you’re guessing and are either (A) right or (B) wrong, and you can’t tell til you’re on the other side?
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Replying to @pcperini
I really am a believer in the idea that, given sufficient consumption of available evidence, you'll ascend towards better ideas and understanding. It's just that you can't consume information and experimentation sufficiently at a generalist level — there is too much to know.
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Replying to @generativist
I think I agree with that broadly but I also think every human’s efforts round to some identical, trivial amounts in the face of what would need to be known.
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