Why are these so many logical positivists and scientism supporters around these days? What happened? Are we re-running the 20th century but with a different random seed and the tech BS parameter set higher?
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What about them?
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I mean what specifically about the beliefs of Sam Harris fans?
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Oh, do you mean "what is scientism"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
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Funny, for whatever reason, my association with the word “scientism” is as a pejorative, eg as used by anti-vax ppl:http://www.europereloaded.com/challenging-vaccine-scientism/ …
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Oh, yeah... I think I knew that as a low frequency (for me!) meaning in the depths of my mind but forgot it up until now.
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