a la Gibson, society has always "progressed" unevenly; scientific/philosophical advancements only really affect the beliefs of the intellectual classes, w/ the average memesets of normal people staying mostly constant over the centuries
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RT @Scribble1k
Galileo wasn't tortured by the catholic church just for ppl to come along make tweets like this https://twitter.com/mel_uh_nin/status/1466125745055584297
https://twitter.com/Scribble1k/status/1466828656861487111
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u think the median voter's physical intuition is any more advanced than that of a medieval peasant's? do u most people really grok the germ theory of disease or do they treat it as miasma? is the Just Universe fallacy any less common than it used to be?
the masses don't change
it's entirely rational for the typical person to operate on intuitive models of the world; they're an optimal solution for a minimally-expensive good-enough set of heuristics for operating in society. some like to pretend otherwise, but it's just not so
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RT @pee_zombie
vast majority of humanity has never reasoned from first principles, and that's okay! it's simply not adaptive for the average person to do so. at best, you can obtain…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1314680420777287683