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It's not unchecked free speech. Instead, it's unchecked curation by media and social media companies with the goal of engagement. Try teaching non-elite underg
by jseliger 6y ago
It's not unchecked free speech. Instead, it's unchecked curation by media and social media companies with the goal of engagement.
Try teaching non-elite undergrads sometime, and particularly assignments that require some sense of epistemology, and you'll discover that the vast majority of people have pretty poor personal epistemic hygiene—it's not much required in most people, most of the time, in most jobs.
We evolved to form tribes, not to be "right." Jonathan's Haidt's The Righteous Mind deals with this topic well. https://jakeseliger.com/2012/03/25/jonathan-haidts-the-righteous-mind-and-what-were-really-arguing-about https://jakeseliger.com/2012/03/25/jonathan-haidts-the-right...
- trophycase 6y agoThis, I keep saying this. It's not a question of truth, it was never really a question of truth. It's about who is saying what.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y agoIn my experience this is 100% the case. If someone doesn't like you, no matter what you do or the rationality of what you say will not change their opinion of you unless it saves them from undue harm.
- Hammershaft 6y agoAre undergrads from elite universities any different from your experience?
- aaron-santos 6y agoIt's likely worse. Their ability to rationalize may be higher.
- petermcneeley 6y agoI think some concrete examples would be nice.
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- webmaven 6y ago> Try teaching non-elite undergrads sometime, and particularly assignments that require some sense of epistemology, and you'll discover that the vast majority of people have pretty poor personal epistemic hygiene—it's not much required in most people, most of the time, in most jobs. I'm not sure what you mean by "non-elite undergrads" here. Is it "undergrads from non-elite universities", or "undergrads from non-elite backgrounds", "B-student undergrads", or perhaps something else?
- specialist 6y agoI'm onboard with Haidt's description of the problem. I was much less impressed with his prescription for mitigating it. Apparently if we all just clap louder, Tinkerbell will fly.