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Yes, the last sentence in my comment was unnecessarily provocative and I should have left it out because it distracts from my larger point, about which I think
by glial 6y ago
Yes, the last sentence in my comment was unnecessarily provocative and I should have left it out because it distracts from my larger point, about which I think we agree. Humans are not good at discerning truth on their own, and we need social institutions that help us collaborate to find it, rather than turn the endeavor into a spectacle.
- mistermann 6y agoI can get on board with us needing help to learn how to discern fact from fiction, but considering the amount of people with post-secondary education who seem utterly helpless I don't feel like the universities are the place to turn, I certainly don't trust the government to come up with a trustworthy system (I'm suspicious if such a thing is aligned with their true interests), so I'm not sure how we find our way out of the corner we've painted ourselves into. And ever present in the background is China, who due to strict control of speech seem to have very few problems like us. Evolution being amoral, I'm a bit worried that their restrictive approach might end up being selected for fitness.