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> I learned to never base your worldview on something so tenuous that a new discovery could topple it. What? I'd just call that "learning from evidence". I b
by Eliezer 17y ago
> I learned to never base your worldview on something so tenuous that a new discovery could topple it.
What? I'd just call that "learning from evidence". I believe plenty of things that a new discovery could topple and there's nothing wrong with that, so long as the new discovery hasn't already happened. You can't update on evidence that could arrive but hasn't arrived.
- cglee 17y agoI'm talking about basing your worldview, not what you currently believe. Worldviews are things people attach significant identities to, and internalize to form the foundations for the rest of their beliefs. If there's nothing you can think of that can topple you, then kudos, you may have reached enlightenment.