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Intellectuals (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Minds Almost Meeting

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Is Knowledge Really Useful or Is It Necessary?

Don't you think there are hidden influences on all of our everything we do but specifically all of our research that are going to shape what research questions we ask and how we ask them? We disapprove of people whose research treads on uncomfortable political territory and gives the results we don't want. So i'm arguing for this as a good norm i'm saying it's a good norm okay okay well so this is where we get back to um there was there wasthere was the pluralist robin we encountered briefly in the early part of this conversation.

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