Will these companies and cities that are being destroyed by crime and
insouciance eventually ask for a government bailout?
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5000 pilots--who self-report(!)--concealed or diminished health issues that would have disqualified them from flying.
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insouciance eventually ask for a government bailout?
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5000 pilots--who self-report(!)--concealed or diminished health issues that would have disqualified them from flying.
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I knew a guy who worked on Chinese installations years ago. He swore they did not use foundations but rather flat platforms.
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Censorship
The elite meet equality.
"We have a natural, genetically based tendency to share our beliefs with each other, and to absorb the beliefs and practices of others. If we had to wait till we had sufficient epistemic justification to believe what other people tell us, a lot of people would die during childhood.
The system is flawed because, in addition to transmitting useful information about the environment and successful practices, it also lets humans transmit erroneous, useless, and even harmful ideas. People sometimes acquire such ideas, whether through random error, motivated reasoning, or psychological disorders. They then sometimes transmit these ideas to other people, using the natural human tendency to trust one another’s words.
Most such erroneous ideas quickly die out. But occasionally a set of ideas appears that has enough mechanisms for encouraging its own reproduction and preventing itself from being criticized that it persists for long periods of time."--Huemer
Kling responds, "I do not think that there is something intrinsic to belief X that makes people want to punish unbelievers. I think instead that thought-crimes emerge on the basis of elite insecurity. When an elite group feels it is getting the deference it deserves, it will allow you to question its beliefs. But when an elite feels insecure, it draws up a defensive perimeter around its beliefs. An insecure elite makes makes unbelief a thought-crime."
"We have a natural, genetically based tendency to share our beliefs with each other, and to absorb the beliefs and practices of others. If we had to wait till we had sufficient epistemic justification to believe what other people tell us, a lot of people would die during childhood.
The system is flawed because, in addition to transmitting useful information about the environment and successful practices, it also lets humans transmit erroneous, useless, and even harmful ideas. People sometimes acquire such ideas, whether through random error, motivated reasoning, or psychological disorders. They then sometimes transmit these ideas to other people, using the natural human tendency to trust one another’s words.
Most such erroneous ideas quickly die out. But occasionally a set of ideas appears that has enough mechanisms for encouraging its own reproduction and preventing itself from being criticized that it persists for long periods of time."--Huemer
Kling responds, "I do not think that there is something intrinsic to belief X that makes people want to punish unbelievers. I think instead that thought-crimes emerge on the basis of elite insecurity. When an elite group feels it is getting the deference it deserves, it will allow you to question its beliefs. But when an elite feels insecure, it draws up a defensive perimeter around its beliefs. An insecure elite makes makes unbelief a thought-crime."
This is a much more optimistic view of serious division and animosity in the culture. And explaining something does not neutralize it.
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