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Ep 33 Ch 13 "Choices" Part 1. Some readings and remarks.

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The No-Go Theorems

There is no way to regard society as decision-maker with self-consistent preferences. People get into terrible debates and deadlock, and dead ends in those debates over what should and indeed must absolutely be done to solve some particular problem. We people create new explanations which themselves transform the world. And this idea of having one good, namely one hard to vary, known best explanation for a given a phenomena also applies to deciding among explanations itself. It's reflective. There is only one known good explanation of how to decide among good explanations.

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