> "um actually you can never be certain so trying to reason about things is stupid" I didn't mean to say that, just that logic and reason are not infallible an

> "um actually you can never be certain so trying to reason about things is stupid" I didn't mean to say that, just that logic and reason are not infallible and have to be checked. Sure we use complex software to detect cancer in MRI images, but we constantly check that this software works by... you know... seeing if there's actual cancer where it says there is, and if there's not we go back around the engineering circle and refine the design. Let's say I use the most painstaking, arduous, careful methods to design an orbital rocket. I take extreme care to make every design decision on the basis of physics and use elaborate simulations that my designs are correct. I check, re-check, and re-check. Then I build it. It's never flown before. You getting on board? Obviously riding on an untested rocket would be insane no matter how high-IQ and "rational" its engineers tried to be. So is revamping our entire political, economic, or social system on the basis of someone's longtermist model of the future that is untestable and unverifiable. So is banning beneficial technologies on the basis of hypothetical dangers built on hypothetical reasoning from untestable priors. And so on... ... and so is, apparently, killing people, because reasons?