https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/y4bkJTtG3s5d6v36k/stupidity-and-dishonesty-explain-each-other-away
I can't help but hope there are other causes for being wrong. 8^) For example, in a Kierkegaardian "throw down with your best guess" sense, e.g. the champions like Krugman, when their simplifications are shown to be wrong, I couldn't call them either dishonest or stupid. I'm OK with calling them "premature", but that's not really denigrating in the same way. As I tried to say before, a premature advocacy may be necessary to disambiguating the problem ... which is necessary for good problem solving. This is why I like the adjective "authentic". Even if some yahoo is completely wrong about some concept, treating them as if they're authentic presents constructive paths to various solutions. On December 26, 2019 1:11:30 PM PST, "uǝlƃ ☣" <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: >These champions can be viewed as sacrificing themselves for the greater >good. They adopt a position and advocate it in spite of their own inner >homunculus shouting at them that they should be more reasonable ... >take criticism as constructive and respond in metered and polite >language, stick to the facts, be willing to change one's mind. But by >making these (purposeful) discretizations, they are simplifying the >domain and, thereby, making potential 80/20 solutions *feasible*. -- glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
