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S01E14: Selecting for Deafness - David Deutsch

Dilemma Podcast

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The Immorality of Optimism

If you're deprived of the means of criticism then that is the irrational thing and therefore the immoral thing. It's more than access to criticism there's an infinite amount of knowledge so we always whatever we do we only have access to to a infinitesimal portion of it but if If you were just in a sensory deprivation tank forever and you had an idea or a conjecture just in the the magic of your own mind that could be criticized or refuted or confirmed by the evidence of hearing something but you were unable to to hear anything in there yes this is an immoral situation from some or maybe in your view evil i'm gonna i was sort of saving that word but in your your definition of optimism

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