Perhaps harder to deal with than we think.
http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/meta-rationality/
On 3/23/13 4:47 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
Nick -
I suppose *willful ignorance* is a variant of "evil", but I think a
*lot* of what looks like "simple" incoherence is actually willful.
- Steve
At the risk of thread-bending, I would like to point out that every
conversation we have these days, from daylight savings to google,
seems to be about the same issue. How do we tell the difference
between incoherence and lying? Lying presupposes a fundamental
coherence in the entity of which we are speaking. For an
organization to be lying, the guy in the office with the window has
to know that the guy in the windowless cubicle is telling you
something that isn't true. When the Rand Paul organization
corrected the Boss on his position on immigration the other day, was
this restoring coherence? Or do they not know the truth about what
The Boss actually thinks. Or, is the human individual, the physical
entity we call Rand Paul, not itself a coherent psychological
entity. Can one lie about one's own position on a matter? If so,
where resides the state of affairs about one's position other than in
one's own declarations of it. In short, "Who knows what evil lurks
in the hearts of men. ...... The Shadow Knows."
Nick
*From:*Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of
*Douglas Roberts
*Sent:* Saturday, March 23, 2013 12:05 PM
*To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
*Subject:* [FRIAM] Another Saturday, another Google fib sees the
light of day
Thought for the day: If you decide to start a company, it's probably
not a good idea to adopt the motto "Don't be evil" if you plan on
using marketing campaigns that rely on spouting humongous fibs about
your product's deficiencies.
http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/03/translated.html
--Doug
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