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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Feb 2019
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      When presented with a party line of positions, you should pick at least 1/3 to oppose on principle. If you find yourself agreeing with all of them and unable to identify a 1/3 where you could reasonably break ranks you need cult deprogramming school.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Feb 2019
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      “The opposite of every great truth is also a great truth”. If you can’t find 1/3 to oppose either they’re all trivial tautologies and the party line is a kindergarten morality tale of no consequence OR, you’ve been mob-ified and lost the ability to think for yourself.

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    3. David Manheim‏ @davidmanheim 4 Feb 2019
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      The problem is that it's often hard to disentangle the correlated nature of these truths. You can easily end up incoherent if you reject 1/3 at random. I've instead argued that we need to be less *certain* of our certitudes, but that's a very different claim than yours.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Feb 2019
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      I think incoherence is better than mob mindedness. At least it’s *your* incoherence. And what’s so great about coherence? “Foolish consistency the hobgoblin of small minds” etc

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        2. David Manheim‏ @davidmanheim 4 Feb 2019
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          I agree that slavish consistency with past positions is foolish, but incoherence can claim anything as a result of inconsistency (logically, ~True -> anything) and so in fact claims nothing. People can decide to be incoherent, but claims they make on that basis should be ignored.

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          That’s not much of a real problem right now. Pathological, cancerous consistency is the far bigger problem.

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