Epistemology
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Epistemology
The solution isn’t better truths.
It’s better listening.
How do you get people to listen?
You reward those who do, and punish those who don’t.
Bring investment due diligence to public narratives.
Mike Eliastwitter.comHere’s the deal with theta: it’s a different kind of knowing than beta. Beta is a crisp, oh-I-just-cogitated-this-thought. But experience in theta is knowing. Theta hits you in a total, murky, deep-but-diffuse way.
Kristin Posehn • Psychic Shit Happens All The Time
Your everyday beta knowing feels like, hey here’s a knowledge I found, let us rotate and consider this sparkling, clearly-defined concept. Theta’s not like that. Theta knowing extends with no clear edge, even implicating you, whether you want it or not you’re part of the knowledge like some inseparable field and wave.
Kristin Posehn • Psychic Shit Happens All The Time
That is, they understand the purpose of chatbots and generative models to be the ability to force other people to see a particular version of reality. It is a tool of power that masquerades as a tool of knowledge.
Rob Horning • Practico-inertia
