@BioMan@lagrangeinterpolator There are a few things we have forgotten as a species. Our forgetting will prove disastrous.
The acquisition of knowledge is a *social* process. Truth does not exist is a vacuum. It is the outcome of social processes.
Our default mental and social processes do not automatically produce objective truth. Far from it, in fact. Our default is mob consensus.
Our current success rests upon the advancements of The Enlightenment, which developed social processes (like the Scientific Method) which tend, over the long run, to create local knowledge that approaches objective truth.
@paddirn@andy Walz is a progressive, but that's not the real value he brings to the ticket. He's also a rural, white, midwestern, gun-owning vet. Having that demographic on the ticket both shores up support amongst a critical swing-state demographic, while protecting against broadside attacks about "liberal costal elites" and bullshit like that.
@BioMan @lagrangeinterpolator There are a few things we have forgotten as a species. Our forgetting will prove disastrous.
The acquisition of knowledge is a *social* process. Truth does not exist is a vacuum. It is the outcome of social processes.
Our default mental and social processes do not automatically produce objective truth. Far from it, in fact. Our default is mob consensus.
Our current success rests upon the advancements of The Enlightenment, which developed social processes (like the Scientific Method) which tend, over the long run, to create local knowledge that approaches objective truth.
@zaktakespictures @birding HONK!
@Soyweiser @bitofhope Is that a built-in oscilloscope in the center section?
So cool ... but WHY
@paddirn @andy Walz is a progressive, but that's not the real value he brings to the ticket. He's also a rural, white, midwestern, gun-owning vet. Having that demographic on the ticket both shores up support amongst a critical swing-state demographic, while protecting against broadside attacks about "liberal costal elites" and bullshit like that.
@ajsadauskas @technology AI: do more stupid stuff faster!
@ajsadauskas @technology lol you don't need LLMs to end up in that mess ... seen it everywhere
@sailor_sega_saturn @TinyTimmyTokyo Kinda hilarious those beliefs are called "rationalism". They're speculation
& pseudoscience at best.