It’s astonishing that it’s approaching a century since Karl Popper gave us a good explanation of knowledge and it seems no one seems to have noticed.
Humans are mostly wrong most of the time, but we're getting less wrong; that's reflected in our ability to do many things we couldn't do x years ago. The key to progress is allowing and encouraging reality-testing. Do truth by committee and "truth" will soon mean something else.https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1273086610175819777 …
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Yeah I think the thread is overloading “truth”. Claims made by powerful institutions have real impact and force. Merely claiming something isn’t “truth”. Truth isn’t democratic, true because many believe. Truth isn’t totalitarian, true because power believes.
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Conveying truth is also different from knowing truth. Truth is power because applying it gives you the result you want. But conveying truth can be any number of things depending on the scenario.
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I think a good way of thinking about "truth" is asking "Under the given circumstances, is this a good model of the pattern I am describing?". Truths allow us to make predictions. Some models/truths are demonstrably better at that than others.
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