Ehhhhhhhhr mooooostly agree? But there are social effects, like shifts in the Overton Window. I claim that I have seen high-status people with rock-solid epistemics spout frothing madness as they explored the edges of what is known, and they were taking all of the things that they were saying with heavy helpings of salt and so forth, but they weren’t transparent to onlookers about the fact that they were spitballing, and then some of those onlookers went on to spout frothing madness themselves (but with less rock-solid epistemics themselves) and by the time you got three or four steps removed there were people who just thought that sort of reasoning was a central example of rationality because lots of people were doing it sans context or caveat.
Ehhhhhhhhr mooooostly agree? But there are social effects, like shifts in the Overton Window. I claim that I have seen high-status people with rock-solid epistemics spout frothing madness as they explored the edges of what is known, and they were taking all of the things that they were saying with heavy helpings of salt and so forth, but they weren’t transparent to onlookers about the fact that they were spitballing, and then some of those onlookers went on to spout frothing madness themselves (but with less rock-solid epistemics themselves) and by the time you got three or four steps removed there were people who just thought that sort of reasoning was a central example of rationality because lots of people were doing it sans context or caveat.
annoying but fair.
I agree that it is annoying. We’ll patch this in the update to Humans 2.0.