Early, Brent explicitly emphasised the power of belief as a thing independent of epistemology. That it could be important to choose what to believe, or believe false things, if that worked better. I didn’t like that at all. It didn’t sit well, and I refused, vocally. For the next week, the conversations were direct: [...]
“You need to just acknowledge me as the wizard and trust I know what I’m doing”
I think I see how “Affordance Widths” might be abused and it would likely be good to have a longer post about how it’s problematic.
https://medium.com/@mittenscautious/warning-3-8097bb6747b1 seems to contain a few very concrete suggestions about bad epistemic tactics by ialdabaoth.
I think I see how “Affordance Widths” might be abused and it would likely be good to have a longer post about how it’s problematic.