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    1. Greg Borenstein‏ @atduskgreg 3 Jul 2015
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      @vgr I’m enough of an institutionalist that I don’t care about whether those things are “true”. I care how knowledge is created & propagated

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Jul 2015
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      @atduskgreg that's an honest position. I wish more people were as honest. I am the opposite. I care about new truths, not how they're found

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    3. Greg Borenstein‏ @atduskgreg 3 Jul 2015
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      @vgr If you care about new truths you should care about how they’re found. Chasing “pure reason” you can cripple actual engines of knowledge

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    4. Paul Baumgart‏ @paulbaumgart 3 Jul 2015
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      @atduskgreg @vgr Why not care about both, but independently?

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    5. Greg Borenstein‏ @atduskgreg 3 Jul 2015
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      @paulbaumgart @vgr That assumed they’re inherently separable. I don’t see any evidence of that.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Jul 2015
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      @atduskgreg @paulbaumgart My objection is to sheer bad faith. It's like claiming 2+2=4 is suspect because of who said it.

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    7. Greg Borenstein‏ @atduskgreg 3 Jul 2015
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      @vgr @paulbaumgart Not that it’s suspect but that it’s incomplete without wider context. To which mathematicians would agree.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Jul 2015
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      @atduskgreg @paulbaumgart Incomplete for some things like institution design or reform. Not for everything.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Jul 2015
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      @atduskgreg @paulbaumgart You can check a logical proof for yourself in many cases and use it, no appeal to authority or context needed

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    10. Greg Borenstein‏ @atduskgreg 3 Jul 2015
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      @vgr @paulbaumgart I think the question is a lot more interesting with the physical sciences.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Jul 2015
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      @atduskgreg @paulbaumgart yes, as you get closer to human affairs, things get more culturally relative.

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        1. Paul Baumgart‏ @paulbaumgart 3 Jul 2015
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          @vgr @atduskgreg They become more "eventually consistent" than truly and immediately correct.

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        1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Jul 2015
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          @atduskgreg @paulbaumgart it's bad faith to talk of logic, math, mass of electrons, the quality of a literature, of a race, in same terms

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        2. Greg Borenstein‏ @atduskgreg 3 Jul 2015
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          @vgr @paulbaumgart Yes exactly. It gets harder and harder not to invisibly embed values in supposedly “pure” truths.

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          @atduskgreg @vgr I think that's why it's important to keep them separate: so you can get a sense for whether that's getting worse or better.

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