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> in any objective discussion do these _ever_ exist? especially in politics, identity matters. yes, of course who is making a claim has no bearing on whether
by MarkPNeyer 11y ago
> in any objective discussion
do these _ever_ exist?
especially in politics, identity matters.
yes, of course who is making a claim has no bearing on whether it is _actually_ true, but when we evaluate claims, we evaluated them for their _likely_ truth.
the world you paint - where "who says it doesn't matter" - that is not the world we live in now. if i contradict a famous economist on TPP (http://markpneyer.me/2015/06/15/tyler-cowen-change-your-mind-on-the-tpp/ http://markpneyer.me/2015/06/15/tyler-cowen-change-your-mind...) unless i have an audience, nobody cares.
the best way to "stick to facts" and "find the truth, no matter who says it" would be a system like this, which actually lets us say, provably "nobody predicted this publicly before i did"