Not only are there places in the internet aspiring to find the truth, there are, in fact, very few places that are not aspiring to find it.
?? If you look at the Alexa top 50 sites for the US, how many of them are about aspiring to find the truth? I count between 3 and 4 (Google, Wikipedia, and Bing for sure, Wikia maybe).
I think you’re confusing “aspiring to find truth” with “finding truth”. Your crackpot uncle who writes facebook posts about how Trump eats babies isn’t doing it because he loves lies and hates truth, he does it because he has poor epistemic hygiene.
So in this view almost every discussion forum and almost every newspaper is doing their best to find the truth, even if they have some other goals as well.
Also, of course, I’m only counting places that deal with anything like propositions at all, and excluding things like jokes, memes, porn, shopping, etc, which is a large fraction of the internet.
?? If you look at the Alexa top 50 sites for the US, how many of them are about aspiring to find the truth? I count between 3 and 4 (Google, Wikipedia, and Bing for sure, Wikia maybe).
You forgot amazon.com and walmart.com, which have the tightest instrumental rationality feedback loops of them all.
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I think you’re confusing “aspiring to find truth” with “finding truth”. Your crackpot uncle who writes facebook posts about how Trump eats babies isn’t doing it because he loves lies and hates truth, he does it because he has poor epistemic hygiene.
So in this view almost every discussion forum and almost every newspaper is doing their best to find the truth, even if they have some other goals as well.
Also, of course, I’m only counting places that deal with anything like propositions at all, and excluding things like jokes, memes, porn, shopping, etc, which is a large fraction of the internet.