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> I somehow doubt you'd be equally in the spirit of discovery of the "experiment" were a commune or large-scale nationalization of industries. No I absolutely
by jfaucett 9y ago
> I somehow doubt you'd be equally in the spirit of discovery of the "experiment" were a commune or large-scale nationalization of industries.
No I absolutely would be, so long as it is formed in a traditional experimental design. I wouldn't want anything I was proposing above or you are here to just be globally implemented, since we don't actually know how it would work out. So, I freely admit my bias. But the only way to counter bias and make progress is with data and a process for checking yourself. For me, that is the scientific process, anything else is really just us following our emotions which doesn't lead anywhere fruitful, that's my point.
- emodendroket 9y agoThis kind of extreme "scientism," if you will, ignores the fact that 1) we can anticipate the likely effects of a policy using our powers of reason and a large body of evidence from the various forms of government in action all over the entire world 2) it is unethical to conduct experiments on human subjects whose likely result is harm.