Absolutely! I’m definitely dead set against anti-epistemology—I just want to make the point that that’s a contingent fact about the world we find ourselves in. Reality could be such that anti-epistemology was the only way to have a hope of survival. It isn’t, but it could be.
Once you’ve established that epistemic rationality could give way to instrumental rationality, even in a contrived example, you then need to think about where that line goes. I don’t think it’s likely to be relevant to us, but from a theoretical view we shouldn’t pretend the line doesn’t exist.
Indeed, advocating not telling people about it because the consequences would be worse is precisely suppressing the truth because of the consequnces ;) (well, it would be more on-topic if you were denying the potential utility of anti-epistemology even to yourself...)
Absolutely! I’m definitely dead set against anti-epistemology—I just want to make the point that that’s a contingent fact about the world we find ourselves in. Reality could be such that anti-epistemology was the only way to have a hope of survival. It isn’t, but it could be.
Once you’ve established that epistemic rationality could give way to instrumental rationality, even in a contrived example, you then need to think about where that line goes. I don’t think it’s likely to be relevant to us, but from a theoretical view we shouldn’t pretend the line doesn’t exist.
Indeed, advocating not telling people about it because the consequences would be worse is precisely suppressing the truth because of the consequnces ;) (well, it would be more on-topic if you were denying the potential utility of anti-epistemology even to yourself...)