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.
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.