Here’s the logic: do you believe anything you’re not willing to say out loud? If not: it’s because you only believe what people tell you.
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Its fulcrum is a weird statistical argument. Either what you believe is unchallenged wisdom from others, or you independently reasoned.
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How likely is it that you just HAPPENED to reason your way carefully to a portfolio of the accepted wisdom of your peer group?
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For instance: I believe in gravity, Sun rising in east, that Dinosaur Jr is overrated, the first 6 digits of pi, and so on for ~100+ items.
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How likely is it that I just HAPPEN to be right about all those facts? I must be programmed by my peer group not to think independently.
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I really sort of like Graham and have a lot of respect for what he’s built, but I also see basically every HN race troll in this silly post.
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Also: we don’t tell our kids not to swear because we “want them to seem innocent”. Presumably by now he’s figured this out; he’s a good dad.
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Replying to @tqbf
Maybe we're generally getting better at being right, so lots of things we think today would seem wrong in previous times.
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We'll still be wrong plenty, but "we used to believe something else" does not seem like a good candidate for things we're wrong about :p
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@paulg's analysis, we're probably wrong about being pro-public torture as recently as a few centuries ago (not "universal" like murder)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
We're also probably wrong about war crimes, public hangings, slavery, democracy, to name a few.
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