There's one link in Donald Hoffman's argument where careful people suddenly "drop their credence hard." It's not the link where the evidence gets weak. It's the link where saying it out loud gets expensive. On smell-tests, consilience, and what the flinch is actually measuring.
https://t.co/uRvo7kqr55
@ignisanimae I feel substantially better after going through a period of convulsing somatic release a few days back. So much unnecessary pain is avoidable by disregarding self-seriousness and not resisting what one intuits will help.
Ignore politicians. Ignore the media. Think from first principles. Follow the money. Sometimes civilizational metacognition happens through one really epistemically virtuous guy who follows ideas wherever they lead.
Simon Dixon has done frankly unparalleled work in mapping out the power dynamics and incentive structures behind the garbage attractor state civilization finds itself in. It's worth your time.
https://t.co/fHYYCrE7fe
@barabeke Simon Dixon has done some frankly unparalleled work in mapping out the power dynamics and incentive structures maintaining the shitty attractor state civilization finds itself in. If you're interested, I'd love your take:
https://t.co/fHYYCrE7fe
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