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Right. It all hooks up to a naive, popular philosophy of knowledge that I think has been burgeoning since the birth of search engines: people today tend to thin
by voidhorse 3y ago
Right. It all hooks up to a naive, popular philosophy of knowledge that I think has been burgeoning since the birth of search engines: people today tend to think that everything is decomposable into atomic facts and that all questions have concrete, singular, atomic answers.
Obviously, this could not be further from the truth, but I think ever since the advent of things like "answer cards" in search, people have been led into this technological bias trap of thinking that whatever answer the engine spits out must be the canonical answer and forget that we still have a broad range of questions and research areas we don't have anything close to definitive answers on. The problem is only exacerbated when people make this mistake in domains that will never have singular answers like politics and ethics.