Post #1956213
2026-05-03 08:19 UTC
a lot of the philosophical points we raise aren't meant to be collapseable down to a single clean answer
people really want to be able to boil their own philosophies down to absolutes; but isn't that just another way of creating dogma?
l want people to learn to sit with uncertainty, sometimes, and to learn to be able to act despite uncertainty, without simply giving up on the tasks of thinking about and getting evidence
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@ktemkin@provably.online 2026-05-03 08:25
this doesn't mean you can't come to conclusions, and then subsequently decide you've seen enough evidence that it's a waste of your time to keep engaging in discussions with most folks around you (about that topic) this doesn't mean you have to give ground to concern trolls or people who spend time sea lioning but there are still lots of situations where people really should allow themselves to hang on to uncertainty, rather than just trying to figure out which piece of their internalized rhetoric defines what they should be absolutely sure of in a given situation