X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fon-the-public-anti-epistemology-of-dath-ilan.md;h=dbd39b471a92f64fe262179db1b2a1e7c30f8ef9;hb=HEAD;hp=56f134fd8084a23f99b519fe4120dae058027c5a;hpb=0e65e79cd297f1c4d70195f4752608e69592791a;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/on-the-public-anti-epistemology-of-dath-ilan.md b/content/drafts/on-the-public-anti-epistemology-of-dath-ilan.md index 56f134f..a1998a4 100644 --- a/content/drafts/on-the-public-anti-epistemology-of-dath-ilan.md +++ b/content/drafts/on-the-public-anti-epistemology-of-dath-ilan.md @@ -190,9 +190,21 @@ Or consider how our Society handles pedophilia. This is a sexuality that we do n ### Replies to Objections +This essay has had some negative things to say about dath ilani culture. + + + +#### Infohazardville + + + + +#### + + [TODO— * Counterargument: dath ilan lets you immigrate to infohazardville. Reply: sure, I agree that a Society that marginalizes truth-tellers is better than one than executes them. It's still fundamentally fair game for me to point out that it's not consilient with the values of _Overcoming Bias_ readers in 2008. - * Counterargument: as a reductio, am I opposed to movie and homework exercise spoilers, too? Reply: No, I recognize spoiler protection as a legitimate class of infohazard. (And AGI/nuclear as an social exfohazard, and threats as a legitimate infohazard.) + * Counterargument: as a reductio, am I opposed to movie and homework exercise spoilers, too? Reply: No, I recognize spoiler protection as a legitimate class of infohazard. (And AGI/nuclear as an social exfohazard, and threats as a legitimate infohazard.) And the concealing eugenics predictions, self-fulfilling prophecy * Counterargument: the text says that regular dath ilani do believe "that which can be destroyed" eventually, just not immediately. Reply: this would be more believable with a timetable; I can understand "I don't want to deal with this yet", but there's no indication that Merrin or Keltham are supposed to figure it out. * Counterargument: but the gaslighting is supposed to inculcate distrust of authority. Reply: clearly it doesn't work, given how much everyone trusts the government that is lying to them all the time? * Numendil's point: dath ilani should look spoiled to us, for the same reason we look spoiled to Golarionites @@ -200,3 +212,5 @@ Or consider how our Society handles pedophilia. This is a sexuality that we do n ### Conclusion +> That's the point where it starts to look like somebody is trying to hide something, or fool future generations, and not just respond to a strange threat in a way where they're happy to let you take all the precautions required to make sure nobody's fooling anybody. +https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1813073#reply-1813073