Now I’m curious. Does studying history make you update in a similar way? I feel that these times are not especially insane compared to the rest of history, though the scale of the problems might be bigger.
Now I’m curious. Does studying history make you update in a similar way?
History is not one of my main interests, but I would guess yes, which is why I said “Actually, I probably shouldn’t have been so optimistic even before the recent events...”
I feel that these times are not especially insane compared to the rest of history, though the scale of the problems might be bigger.
Agreed. I think I was under the impression that western civilization managed to fix a lot of the especially bad epistemic pathologies in a somewhat stable way, and was unpleasantly surprised when that turned out not to be the case.
Now I’m curious. Does studying history make you update in a similar way? I feel that these times are not especially insane compared to the rest of history, though the scale of the problems might be bigger.
History is not one of my main interests, but I would guess yes, which is why I said “Actually, I probably shouldn’t have been so optimistic even before the recent events...”
Agreed. I think I was under the impression that western civilization managed to fix a lot of the especially bad epistemic pathologies in a somewhat stable way, and was unpleasantly surprised when that turned out not to be the case.