It's more important for society to get questions right than for individuals to be right, especially for political, existential risk, scientific, technological, and ethical questions.
Different aspects of belief can go in different directions within a single person, and collective rationality can differ from individual rationality.
Advocating beliefs should consider the gap between personal belief and societal belief, and focus on contributing unique information to enhance public reason.
The post discusses how rationalist misunderstanding of statistics contributed to the replication crisis in some sciences, revealing that much of what was believed to be true was false.
The section focuses on probabilistic rationalism and sheds light on the importance of statistics in research and decision-making processes.
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The post discusses the end of logic and the challenges that logical rationalism faces due to limited knowledge.
The chapter explores how we don't know everything, which poses a significant difficulty for rationalism.
The post is part of a series that covers logical rationalism and probabilistic rationalism, with this chapter focusing on the concept of incomplete knowledge.