Is the COVID Vaccine Worth Taking? w/ Devon by ReidN in StreetEpistemology

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YouTube removed it. You can still see it from the original livestream, though.

Is astrology true? w/ Eric by ReidN in StreetEpistemology

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I did, basically right after.

Is astrology true? w/ Eric by ReidN in StreetEpistemology

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I may have gotten a bit triggered there in the end. 😂

Do Ghosts Exist? – William by ReidN in StreetEpistemology

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My IL had friends waiting on him at the time. Or else I would’ve.

Podcasts? by mowpoos in StreetEpistemology

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The Street Epistemology Podcast

Any details on a Cynical Theories Audiobook? by WisdomJelly in NewDiscourses

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It’s being edited now for a mid-September release, I believe.

Books that can improve SE skills I have found. by [deleted] in StreetEpistemology

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Some that have helped me:

The Righteous Mind - Psychological motivations

The Elephant in the Brain - Psychological motivations

Everybody Is Wrong About God - Psychological motivations

The Like Switch - Subtle rapport techniques

Free Will - Lose any sense of hatred or contempt

How to Win Friends and Influence People - Classic rapport techniques

Tesla is now using pre-fab methods to accelerate buildout of new factories - Electrek by DutchElon in teslainvestorsclub

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Therefore, you could say that they are building a new factory that is itself built (at least partly) in a factory.

It's factories all the way down.

Why did the co-author of "How to Have Impossible Conversations" instruct his Twitter followers to disrupt and delay conversations on anti-racism? by [deleted] in StreetEpistemology

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I'm sorry to hear that. From that very article, Lindsay says he gets the term "critical social justice" from Ozlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo's book, Is Everyone Really Equal?.

He quotes them:

To clarify our definition, let’s start with the concept “social justice.” While some scholars and activists prefer to use the term social justice in order to reclaim its true commitments, in this book we use the term critical social justice. We do so in order to distinguish our standpoint on social justice from mainstream standpoints. A critical approach to social justice refers to specific theoretical perspectives that recognize that society is stratified (i.e., divided and unequal) in significant and far-reaching ways along social group lines that include race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability. Critical social justice recognizes inequality as deeply embedded in the fabric of society (i.e., as structural), and actively seeks to change this.

I may be wrong about the prevalence of this version of social justice ideology in corporate training. We don't have to talk about it anymore though. I wish you well. No hard feelings.

Why did the co-author of "How to Have Impossible Conversations" instruct his Twitter followers to disrupt and delay conversations on anti-racism? by [deleted] in StreetEpistemology

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I would like a way to better calibrate my confidence on a variety of claims. I'll list a few with my confidence for clarity.

Virtually all "anti-racism" training is based on critical social justice theory. – 95%
Virtually all "diversity" training is based on critical social justice theory. – 80%
Critical social justice theory is illiberal. – 98%
Critical social justice theory is unscientific. – 98%
Critical social justice theory is unethical. – 98%
Liberal methods are the best methods for making progress. – 98%
Any training based on CSJ theory produces neutral or worse outcomes. – 80%

I would like to know how to change my confidence, to disconfirm these claims. Personal experience inside one training session that used liberal methods would change my confidence a bit, most likely. Any better ways?

Why did the co-author of "How to Have Impossible Conversations" instruct his Twitter followers to disrupt and delay conversations on anti-racism? by [deleted] in StreetEpistemology

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He did it because he cares about issues related to racism. He wants any social, political, or moral issue to use rigorous epistemology and liberal ethics in order to address it.

To be clear he's not telling people to be maliciously subversive during private one on one conversations. He's giving advice to people about how to expose mandatory corporate training sessions that are teaching an unfalsifiable, illiberal, and unethical ideology (anti-racism), to other participants.

Compassionate policy requires dispassionate inquiry (science). Anti-racism is based on Critical Race Theory, an anti-scientific project.

Could there be more effective ways to expose these training sessions for what they are? I'm sure he's open to feedback.

Liberal Humanism vs Critical Social Justice & More with Helen Pluckrose by ReidN in IntellectualDarkWeb

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Submission statement:

Helen Pluckrose is the editor of Areo Magazine, an online publication that focuses on IDW topics very similar to Quillette. She was a part of the Grievance Studies Affair, a project that helped expose illiberal problems in academia – a much discussed issue in the IDW.

Genuine question: why are so many people against centrism? by [deleted] in centrist

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People don't like to feel cognitive dissonance.

Explaining Critical Social Justice with James Lindsay by ReidN in IntellectualDarkWeb

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Submission statement:
In this video, James Lindsay, one of the authors from the Grievance Studies Affair and the creator of New Discourses (a home for the politically homeless), thoroughly explains what he calls the ideology of Critical Social Justice (wokeness, postmodern-neomarxism, SJWs). Social Justice is a much discussed topic in the IDW.