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>Reality is absolutely orthogonal to our values... what? that's nonsense. Not everybody's values are the same, for one thing. Especially as society has becom
by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
>Reality is absolutely orthogonal to our values...
what? that's nonsense. Not everybody's values are the same, for one thing. Especially as society has become more and more international.
You should be equally skeptical of any result until proper evidence is presented and verified. Values should have no bearing either way on empirical truth-claims.
- throw310822 7mo agoExactly, you're saying the exact same thing that I am. "Orthogonal" means independent, unrelated. This is why coincidence is very suspicious, because it's statistically very improbable.
- b00ty4breakfast 7mo agoyou also said >we should be highly skeptical of any finding that claims an agreements between facts and ethical values And I'm saying that's silly because you should hold all claims in equal skepticism. Just because something contains an ideological basis does not, in itself, make it more or less correct.