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so how do people vet information and maintain this skepticism without devolving into full conspiracy-esque "trust no one", "everyone has an agenda" type thinkin
by ookblah 2y ago
so how do people vet information and maintain this skepticism without devolving into full conspiracy-esque "trust no one", "everyone has an agenda" type thinking?
- mistermann 2y agoOne approach: apply skepticism to your own beliefs...learn to experience it like a game, so the natural (and culturally conditioned) human aversion to epistemology diminishes over time, or even reverses. > without devolving into full conspiracy-esque "trust no one", "everyone has an agenda" type thinking? Should this necessarily be avoided? Are you asserting that it is not substantially true?
- 082349872349872 2y agoHave a system. I like STASM (mid-XX): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38212528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38212528 > "If you agree with it, it's truth. If you don't agree, it's propaganda. Pretend that it is all propaganda. See what happens on your analysis reports." PS. It is not true that Linebarger was some furry rando.