202. Julia Galef — The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Search for Truth
i think some religious claims are, you know, they are empirical propositions. And so value judgments, for example, am or don't is much less clear than what it would mean for them to be true. I get a little concerned, actually, if one of my tweets gets an unusually large number of clicks, it causes me to doubt myself and like, oh god, was i being unreasonable? His is not a good sign. Yes, looking at tweets that go viral, or tweets about politics that go viral, it's just a depressing, barren waste lands. It doesn't feel like we're in the business of judging others by our own moral intuitions. We can do thought experiments
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