Common sense is a very individual trait. Someone with better knowledge as well as experience will have a different 'common' sense from the usual high school educated bunch
'Commonsense geography': the Earth is flat 'Commonsense medicine': homeopathy cures cancer 'Commonsense policies': mass virtue-signaling by uninformed journalists can resolve any governance issue
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Try again. This tweet is so absurd it's impossible to tell who you are mocking.
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Exactly. Commonsense often proves absurd in the light of reason and evidence.
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How is that common sense geography? Flat earth doesn’t explain the horizon.
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Most people believed it until the last few centuries. It was commonsense.
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Geoff said until the last few centuries. The ancient Greeks believed the world was round 2500 years ago, even before Eratosthenes. And of course the Spanish and Portuguese knew it was round 500 years ago. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200606/history.cfm …
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discussion is not talking about ancient pre-seafaring people, but rather about common sense. try again
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That isn't steel manning but titanium manning. Geoff's original comment doesn't deserve it. You want to argue that most people didn't know the world is round before the Internet? Is this the kind of sophistry you practice at Less Wrong?
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