How Does One Become "Less Wrong"?
On the values of constructive debate and commentary vs. meme wars.
As I build my presence here, I made the tactical mistake of getting too sucked into Notes, and the contretemps it necessitates. I can play that game and I also think that debate should be a bit spicy, I don’t freak out at the first sign of ‘emotion’ or something stated without a citation. We aren’t doing academic research papers here, we we are engaging in communication. Sometimes a soliloquy, sometimes a colloquy, but never just publishing for the point of seeing our name in print. At least for me that’s the point of all this.
There are many brilliant philosophical substacks out there, I won’t try to pretend I’m one of them. That said, my understanding of the majesty and impact of the ‘Age of Reason’ and how ‘truth’ itself was reshaped to eliminate the axiomatic truth of the ‘sovereign’ (whatever the monarch said had to be right cuz it came from God and we are to obey God). Being Irish, I’m also aware how the Irish monks and monasteries literally saved the Greco-Roman literature and …
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