Why is there high certainty that talking to people not walking the path tells that you are walking the path?
Why when two people meet is there a need to establish a hierachy of epistemic authority? Knowing who is further won’t actually make you progress on the path.
While it is a common strategy to use knowledge to improve manipulation there might be strategies where you get control beyond your knowledge. Plants can photosynthesis without knowing about quantum theory despite using quantum effects. If you have control beyond knowledge you are very likely to have unintended side effects. Sure in the limit of “all side effects” they can seem to converge. But what “all side effects” might include will be dependent on how you model the world. Thus there can be side-effects you are unable to model. Thus knowledge can lag control. Thus they are not guaranteed to converge.
Why is there high certainty that talking to people not walking the path tells that you are walking the path?
Why when two people meet is there a need to establish a hierachy of epistemic authority? Knowing who is further won’t actually make you progress on the path.
While it is a common strategy to use knowledge to improve manipulation there might be strategies where you get control beyond your knowledge. Plants can photosynthesis without knowing about quantum theory despite using quantum effects. If you have control beyond knowledge you are very likely to have unintended side effects. Sure in the limit of “all side effects” they can seem to converge. But what “all side effects” might include will be dependent on how you model the world. Thus there can be side-effects you are unable to model. Thus knowledge can lag control. Thus they are not guaranteed to converge.