The more you know about the universe, the more potential conflicts arise. The less you know, the looser the sieve of causal implications.
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One of the most important epistemic skills is placing a surprising claim in its “causal neighborhood”pic.twitter.com/l4U4VlDpGs
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If you do this at the subconscious level, the quale is more like a smell.
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Epistemic anosmia (not smelling the trash) facilitates Gell-Mann amnesia (forgetting that it’s trash)
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i did not know about this and I am very stoked about it, good job
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I just invented it
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A different but also highly useful skill is imagining other causal neighborhoods. I do it by asking myself "what else might this be true off?" So here's a study where they measure cutaneous "respiration" via bird hind quarters from 1995.. http://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/199/2/451.full.pdf …pic.twitter.com/sSnefoC2uw
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omg bird butt sweat
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I thought about something like this, but with a moat around the central claim which represents taboo violations that are conceptually similar but syntactically different statements
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E.g. when you want to ponder whether or not birds breathe through their feet but everyone else insists you are secretly supporting footbinding for factory farmed turkeys.
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