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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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Science is like a fractal system where the closer you look, the more there is to understand. I think that virtue signaling has this other really, really important function of signaling what the community's values are. The general idea is that this may be a way to tackle some of society's more polarizing issues by trying to reframe issues away from sacred values and towards consequences.

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