“Truthseeking is the ground in which other principles” by Elizabeth

Introduction. First they came for the epistemology/we don’t know what happened after that. I’m fairly antagonistic towards the author of that tweet, but it still resonates deep in my soul. Anything I want to do, anything I want to change, rests on having contact with reality. If I don’t have enough, I might as well be pushing buttons at random. Unfortunately, there are a lot of forces pushing against having enough contact with reality. It's a lot of work even when reality cooperates, many situations are adversarial, and even when they’re not entropy itself will constantly chip away at your knowledge base. This is why I think constantly seeking contact with reality is the meta principle without which all (consequentialist) principles are meaningless. If you aren’t actively pursuing truthseeking, you won’t have enough contact with reality to make having goals a reasonable concept, much less achieving them. [...] ---Outline:(01:30) Target audience(01:54) A note on examples and actions(03:21) Facets of truthseeking(03:25) No gods, no monsters, no epistemic daddies(05:24) Actions(08:52) Seek and create information(09:51) Actions(10:29) Protect the epistemic commons(16:19) Actions(17:32) Open sharing of information(20:09) Actions(22:09) New truths are weird(24:26) High Decoupling, Yet High Contextualizing(26:16) Actions(26:21) Willing to hurt people's feelings (but not more than necessary)(28:33) Actions(28:55) Conclusion(29:26) Related Work--- First published: May 27th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XkLnbSsjK7TpNFgPn/truthseeking-is-the-ground-in-which-other-principles --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.