If you do follow news, it would be proper and prudent to at least care about the veracity of it
My point is that there is an important skill that should allow you to passively observe unreliable stories without being harmed by them. It’s possible for this skill to give you more than nothing, so its application to news is not equivalent to not following news. In particular, you can notice something potentially interesting or useful and research it, but there should be no need to do any research. If there is such a need, it should be satisfied by improving generally applicable epistemic defenses, not by fighting off specific news articles.
That’s the traditional option. A simple improvement is to compartmentalize ideas (according to origin and epistemic status) while still taking them seriously within each cluster (thinking about their implications in a lawful gears-level way). I’m guessing this is how Judaism works.
My point is that there is an important skill that should allow you to passively observe unreliable stories without being harmed by them. It’s possible for this skill to give you more than nothing, so its application to news is not equivalent to not following news. In particular, you can notice something potentially interesting or useful and research it, but there should be no need to do any research. If there is such a need, it should be satisfied by improving generally applicable epistemic defenses, not by fighting off specific news articles.
Yeah alright… I guess you could call that passive casual observance :)
That’s the traditional option. A simple improvement is to compartmentalize ideas (according to origin and epistemic status) while still taking them seriously within each cluster (thinking about their implications in a lawful gears-level way). I’m guessing this is how Judaism works.