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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Julia Galef on how to argue better and change your mind more

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is There a Hidden Order Hidden Rationality in the System?

If something has evolved organically and was subject to pressures to some sort of like evolutionary selection pressure. You should, you're default assumption should be there is hidden order hidden rationality in the system that you just may not be able to perceive. So this happened in the case of old growth forests that that governments tore down or you know bulldozed and then planted a nice orderly rose of trees. And then it turned out that there was a lot of sort of subtle ecology that had developed in the old growth forest that was making the forest thrive. When you take all of that away,. The thing that you create in its place can't actually support the kind of wildlife or subtle ecosystem that the trees actually

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