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    1. mikeelias.com  💡 📈‏ @harmonylion1 Jun 3
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      When you hear "FACTS," think "TRUSTED THIRD PARTY." (why facts are NOT the future of epistemology, no matter how blockchain-based or open-source you make them) 1/14

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    2. mikeelias.com  💡 📈‏ @harmonylion1 Jun 3
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      Facts don’t exist in nature. You need an instrument to measure them. Maybe it’s your eyes — maybe it’s a Volkswagen omission meter. You have to trust some instrument to give you information, and all the people between you and it in the information supply-chain. 2/14

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    3. mikeelias.com  💡 📈‏ @harmonylion1 Jun 3
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      "Chainlink!" I hear you scream. Let's assume Chainlink provides trustless data, from a variety of sensors around the world. What if a suspicion arises that Russia manipulates all sensors simultaneously with satellite-based lasers, and millions stop trusting them? 3/14

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    4. mikeelias.com  💡 📈‏ @harmonylion1 Jun 3
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      People who don't want to accept your conclusions will always find ways to avoid accepting your premises. As the last 20 years have taught us, saying "But they're wrong!" over and over is not an adequate remedy. Why is this? 4/14

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    5. mikeelias.com  💡 📈‏ @harmonylion1 Jun 3
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      The center of epistemology lives in the realm of *wanting.* Not of thinking. We are not thinking machines, with desires. We are *wanting machines, with thoughts.* 5/14

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    6. mikeelias.com  💡 📈‏ @harmonylion1 Jun 3
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      The epistemic element that honors the "wanting" in us is *trust* — to trust, we can give our assent or dissent. "Trust" as the fulcrum of public epistemology treats human beings as we are, instead of as we imagine ourselves to be. 6/14

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    7. mikeelias.com  💡 📈‏ @harmonylion1 Jun 3
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      To revolutionize public epistemology, we must reconcile ourselves to this: There is no escape from personal judgment. (image: @slatestarcodex) 7/14pic.twitter.com/3JDdGXB3MO

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    8. mikeelias.com  💡 📈‏ @harmonylion1 Jun 3
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      Personal judgment depends on: - Trusting the source - Wanting the truth There is no such thing as "undeniable evidence." Any evidence can be denied if it's sufficiently unwanted. 8/14

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 3
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      Nice line

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        1. mikeelias.com  💡 📈‏ @harmonylion1 Jun 3
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          Thank you 🙏

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