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by fooop 3y ago
I, for one, am glad that the rationality-bubble is popping.
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by fooop 3y ago
these things are much more transparent than us experts like to think they are - people making "uneducated" decisions are often just making decisions that don't fall in line with the expectations of the "educated". P
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by fooop 3y ago
the world these days is becoming more and more medieval: many different actors, all competing with one another, at different levels of power. Imo, it's a good thing: regular ppl will be more suspicious about power overall and not make
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by fooop 3y ago
nor should they, since the public is indeed being lied to.
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by fooop 3y ago
Speaks more to a fundamental misalignment between societal good and technological progress. The narrative (first born in the Enlightenment) about how reason, unfettered by tradition and nonage, is our best path towards happiness no longer h
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by fooop 3y ago
you mean, making everybody else aware of how smart the poster is
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by fooop 3y ago
> academic publishers are vultures that serve no purpose This is a naively optimistic view of how knowledge production actually operates. Sure, the scientific endeavor is constrained by what is actually the case (i.e.reality), but withou
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by fooop 3y ago
The business fundamentals and the emotional reality seem to be inherently at odds. I'll bet that this is a leading indicator for what's gonna happen in people medicine.
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by fooop 3y ago
ah yes. The solution for too much technology is obviously more technology. I'm so glad that we have all these smart people working for us.