I would amend the OP by saying that “salvage epistemology” is a bad idea for everyone, including “us” (for any value of “us”). I don’t much like labeling things as “infohazards” (folks around here are much too quick to do that, it seems to me), which obfuscates and imbues with an almost mystical air something that is fairly simple: epistemically, this is a bad idea, and reliably doesn’t work and makes our thinking worse.
As I’ve said before: avoiding toxic, sanity-destroying epistemologies and practices is not something you do when you’re insufficiently rational, it is how you stay sufficiently rational.
I would amend the OP by saying that “salvage epistemology” is a bad idea for everyone, including “us” (for any value of “us”). I don’t much like labeling things as “infohazards” (folks around here are much too quick to do that, it seems to me), which obfuscates and imbues with an almost mystical air something that is fairly simple: epistemically, this is a bad idea, and reliably doesn’t work and makes our thinking worse.
As I’ve said before: avoiding toxic, sanity-destroying epistemologies and practices is not something you do when you’re insufficiently rational, it is how you stay sufficiently rational.