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Episode 2: Upgrading our knowledge systems

The Human Flourishing Project

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Is It OK to Not Have Opinions?

When we're looking for real knowledge, a crucial part of this is how we handle experts. We need experts to study issues in depth and then to guide us through them. But if we have any kind of authority where we don't understand what they're saying and we follow it blindly, then we're just at the mercy of who knows what. So that this compulsion to have an opinion all the time is a, is a mistaken compulsion. And i find that when i do that, i'm just so much better off because i i'm not absorbing anything or swallowing anything that ends up hurting me.

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