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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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How to Get People to Think Mechanically

I hope your book will help in that regard. I also heard the term of knowledge infrastructure at one point to describe sort of the methods and technology we use to distribute knowledge. That's definitely something that seems very underdeveloped. Well, the most specific question that I've been thinking about is one that I actually mentioned already or alluded to, and that is how it is we can get people to think consequently rather than in terms of sacred values. And the way he would say that more often is how do we get people to Think mechanistically? So you want people to think about the details of how systems work,. How political systems work, how issues like gun control.

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