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Sep 26, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read Read on X
How people make sense of reality. Two gems of comments. Each one of them is true. Each one doesn’t have a chance to withstand scientific scrutiny or logic.

People do not make decisions based on logic or scientific method. Decisions arise from worldview. /1 Image
The purpose of education is not at all to convince you to see the truth, to arrive at it logically or through observation of reality, but rather to shape your worldview to such extent, that you will not question “established facts”. /2
The extent of education has a sweet spot. Enough. Not to little. Not too much. There is a distinct segment of those who question vaccination - scientific. Funny the author forgot to mention them. Allusion to them is hidden under the code word “sophisticated population”./3
What cognitive distribution doesn’t show you - two types of knowing ignorance at each tail. The lower end that lacks formal education and knows little of the scientific stuff. The higher end that studied enough to arrive at the point of being sure we don’t know much. /4

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All three ritual actions attempt to create a state of 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦-𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 that will be proclaimed healthy based on some limited assortment of random parameters. These parameters come to be from population statistics as random context-free averages tied to some outcomes.
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Our future is glum. The progress will continue. Vaccines will keep saving us. We will be able to upgrade ourselves with spare body parts and change who we are. A little or a lot. We invest into drugs so we will keep on drugging. Masks work so they will stay.
Those of us in the present state of mind will be the last men of our kind who refuse to progress but we are almost extinct.
In good news, God is with us. No matter what trials and tribulations are ahead of us, we will ensure them just like all the men who came before us.
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It is most odd to arrange your life to "prevent hospital care".
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There are many ways to live. Accounting for uncertainty and knowing you have no chance at controlling complexity or being delusional. You can dwell in present reality. Or in a “matrix” of artificial devising of your own inflamed imagination.
A study, a graph, chart, a collection of numbers are not reality.
Complex systems of seemingly similar sets of conditions produce different reality.
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