> We always have, and probably always will have, an arrogance of the present. It's explained by a tautology - what we think is right, is what we think is right.

> We always have, and probably always will have, an arrogance of the present. It's explained by a tautology - what we think is right, is what we think is right. I think it's culture + semantics/semiotics. I see it occurring most frequently in the form "What is true, is what we believe (~'consensus') is true" (the word belief is usually not explicit though). In practice, the word "is" has multiple meanings, one of them being "[It is my opinion that] X is true", and pointing out the presence of the implicit opinion part is culturally unacceptable, depending on the scenario. It's a lack of cultural distinction between the universe and reality, they are typically conflated in this era, in our geographical region. Personally, I think LLM's offer some compelling insight into the process underlying this phenomenon, and I bet this can be proven out.