Yep
Collective sanity requires a population with the willingness both to hear heresies AND to first speak them. Tolerance is necessary but not sufficient, and as long as someone's operating in a social hierarchy reliant on moral disgust & offense-taking they won't even have thathttps://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1065770478147530752 …
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At a time when offense seems for most people to lead directly to calls for a higher power to crush the object of that offense, it seems that reducing the power of, and opportunities for, coercion wherever present is an important part of the solution here. Lower the stakes.
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In my experience, an environment like that requires a base assumption that disagreement is in good faith -- trolling and baiting have eroded the ability to assume good intent
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Moreover, adversarial legal systems and power imbalances make admitting your mind could be changed almost impossible at some levels.
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This tweet is very good.
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