So the point I am making is that we humans have set up a political system where “The Racist Party” and the “Procrastinate the Environment Party” are super-duper not allowed. If the incentives against espousing the view that you actually hold are much more severe than the incentives against trying to mess with epistemology so that you can take the action you wanted without having to reveal your “forbidden” view, then it makes sense to mess with epistemology.
And the reason that we can’t have a world where people lose their jobs and get doxxed and publicly shamed for breaking epistemological rules is that basically everyone does it. Dark side epistemology is a convergent instrumental goal in politics, so it’s really hard to build a coalition against it. And if you did have a system for enforcing epistemological standards, the first thing everyone would think is “Wow that’s great, how can I subvert this system to further my object-level preferences?”
So the point I am making is that we humans have set up a political system where “The Racist Party” and the “Procrastinate the Environment Party” are super-duper not allowed. If the incentives against espousing the view that you actually hold are much more severe than the incentives against trying to mess with epistemology so that you can take the action you wanted without having to reveal your “forbidden” view, then it makes sense to mess with epistemology.
And the reason that we can’t have a world where people lose their jobs and get doxxed and publicly shamed for breaking epistemological rules is that basically everyone does it. Dark side epistemology is a convergent instrumental goal in politics, so it’s really hard to build a coalition against it. And if you did have a system for enforcing epistemological standards, the first thing everyone would think is “Wow that’s great, how can I subvert this system to further my object-level preferences?”