I can’t be in favor of any philosophical method that involves people thinking less than they do already.
All this talk of “Bayesian rationality” seems to me to be a smokescreen for justifying our favorite beliefs by redefining evidence and then finding evidence* that lets us conclude what we wish.
I strongly suspect that there are general principles that would allow us to predict with high accuracy which topics we could be more accurate by going with the majority on and when going with the majority will lead to error and inaccuracy instead. I’m always somewhat shocked that people aren’t more concerned with elucidating those principles.
I can’t be in favor of any philosophical method that involves people thinking less than they do already.
All this talk of “Bayesian rationality” seems to me to be a smokescreen for justifying our favorite beliefs by redefining evidence and then finding evidence* that lets us conclude what we wish.
I strongly suspect that there are general principles that would allow us to predict with high accuracy which topics we could be more accurate by going with the majority on and when going with the majority will lead to error and inaccuracy instead. I’m always somewhat shocked that people aren’t more concerned with elucidating those principles.