Philosophy · Series
← philosophyA data processing framework for humans.
Most of what reaches you every day, you cannot verify. This is a small set of rules for receiving it anyway, without needing to settle, right now, which of it is true. It is not a theory of truth. It is the routine that made a certain kind of anxiety go away, written down in the order it took to work out.
· 4 parts
The series
Part 1
Everything is entertainment data (until proven otherwise)
A single rule for receiving information without needing to know, right now, whether it is true: flag everything as entertainment data first, and let the truth value stay empty until something fills it.
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What you can test
Actionable data: claims with a time, a place, or a procedure attached. The robbers at two in the morning, what a test can and cannot tell you, and what happens to data that keeps passing.
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Who pays when you are wrong?
Why most false beliefs are cheap for the person holding them and expensive for everyone else. The navigator, the smoker, and the vaccine skeptic.
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The framework, applied to me
Running my own beliefs through the bins, starting with the one that caused the anxiety in the first place.
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