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On Communities of Knowledge, Virtue Signalling, & Sacred Values vs. Consequences with Steven A. Sloman (Author of 'The Knowledge Illusion')

Scaling Knowledge

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The Evolution of Knowledge

I think it's important to distinguish the different kinds of things we might have knowledge about, right? So there are simple facts of the world. And then there's religious knowledge and scientific knowledge. They're all kinds of different kinds of knowledge. And I suspect we use different models to make assertions in each of these domains. That seems to me a qualitatively different notion of knowledge.

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