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Religious authority
As it pertains to epistemic authority Debates from Classical South Asia Right and wrong aren’t directly perceptible to humans But some traditions in CSA say yes: revelation/sacred texts The source must be āpta with regard to what’s right and wrong; must have: perfect knowledge of right and wrong the ability to communicate this knowledge at least lack the intention to lie, if not have the intention to communicate honestly Vedas are author-less so can have no faults or biases – uniquely trustworthy Dharmakīrti against authority of the Vedas Even if there was a flawless revealed source, it wouldn’t help as the the revealed source still has to be interpreted and this necessarily happens through human interactions mediated by language Partiality makes communication possible, words are meaning-laden (see: terminology) because of conventions and usage No one, then, can know the meaning of an ‘authorless’ word: “it is not possible in the case of words that lack an [original] expounder” Common usage is partial and not an independent source of knowledge “Since the meaning of authorless words [can] be known neither from tradition, nor from reason, nor from the [ordinary] world, it is [only] proper [to say] that there is no cognition [of the meaning] in this case” See also: derived intentionality Cannot trust other humans who are also flawed “Indeed, a blind [person] does not find the way when led by [another] blind [person]!...
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Peer to peer
Bit-torrent Suppose some N (could be 1) machines have one file and another M (could be very large) machines want the file....
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Primary of Consciousness
Related: [[thoughts/consciousness|consciousness]], [[thoughts/monism#Neutral Monism|neutral monism]] Primacy of Consciousness PHIL451A Paper 3...
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Democracy
For representational democracy to work, we need to trust people to make informed decisions at the polls, so that we can hold politicians accountable to the real interests of their constituents...
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In-group bias
Your Brain on Groups Ezra Klein in Why We’re Polarized...
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Algorithmic decision making
EU: significant decision making cannot be based solely on automatic information processing (though, what is to say that the human consciousness isn’t just automatic information processing?...
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Burnout
From In Over Our Heads Related: pain is not the unit of effort...
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Community of Fate
Margaret Levi in Noema Magazine The keystone is generating an “expanded community of fate....
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Bentoism
My long term Bento A way of planning with a wider view of interests than just what we want right now, like our future selves, the people we care about, and the future of our children....
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Mutual Aid
Book by Dean Spade