
Intellectuals (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
Minds Almost Meeting
Is There a Pollution?
I think that the idea of pollution here is very it's a very helpful word right in thinking about certain forms of I consider pollution namely doing this kind of credit allocation to satisfy people's non-intellectual desires for status. We're gonna have to do a bit of lying as intellectuals humans lie they lie all the time just part of who we are so imagine that you and I were astrologers and astrology worked but it was contested many people out there complained that astrology didn't work. i want this community to be capable of knowing and learning and when allowed to do that effectively i would rather that you just simply told us to stop in certain cases or prevented us from applying our
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