4 thoughts on “Epistemic Authority”

  1. All the epistemic authorities had to do was not abuse their capital. Perhaps it was always this way but they should have adjusted to changing conditions. The democratization of epistemic authority is great but it is hard to filter, just like looking for good music.

    That is a totally different issue than what schools will look like.

    1. That is a totally different issue than what schools will look like.

      Using English to translate Vulcan for Earth people, really truly slows the whole process down. In fact, most of the training is non-verbal. 🙂

      I think it is somewhat humorous that AI would be viewed as an impartial epistemic authority. You know its educational process is largely non-verbal as well. 🙂

  2. Believe no one. It’s not impossible for a person with a broad general education to figure things out. My thought processes are very slow, but like the Mills of the Gods, they grind exceedingly fine. Learn how to read, learn how to compose, learn how to cipher. I had a tough time with that last, but, luckily, it turned out software design was composition.

  3. I think humans may be more well-adapted to the world of deepfakes. 99.9% of history we knew that we could not believe anything we personally, or someone we knew intimately, were not present for. Now manipulative AI is another story – that could easily become the god-king or tribal shaman with whom a critical mass place more faith than they do in their fellow man.

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