Venkatesh Rao on Substack
You cannot really change the nature of knowledge even if you're shouting from the rooftops. So now I have said this, and many people have confirmed that it is so. And it doesn't mean, as far as I can tell, to the rest of the world. So I've become interested in something else, which is what's it like to be people who know this in a world where
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(A compelling case could be made that there is no such thing as a capital-R Reality, and really there are billions of different realities depending on your point of view. And that composite view is itself just another interpretation. All interpretations are wrong, some are useful, some will ruin your life.)
It’s worth noting that while there may be... See more
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visakan veerasamy • Reality Is Unrealistic, Take 1
It is a hard task to tend directly to our interpersonal reality without the mediating narrative framework. The epistemology we live in demands that we treat the intersubjective as objective—that is to say, we expect and are expected to treat social knowledge as factual reality, without regard for our personal epistemic distance from the content.... See more