there’s the ever-present, gnawing worry that haunts me, whispering that I might be fundamentally mistaken about something else.
I think negative visualization is useful for this. I made a list of implications for my beliefs & actions conditioning on the totally hypothetical case in which a particular political opinion of mine (no, I won’t say which one) is wrong.
I noticed that I had some bucket errors along the lines of “I will have to admit to those nasty outgroup memers that I’ve been evil+dumb all along, and accept their righteous judgment!” Once I had written it explicitly, the correction pretty much wrote itself: good-vs-evil is oversimplified at best, being wrong doesn’t make you dumb, and hateful memers deserve no one’s attention, regardless of what faction anyone is in.
I think negative visualization is useful for this. I made a list of implications for my beliefs & actions conditioning on the totally hypothetical case in which a particular political opinion of mine (no, I won’t say which one) is wrong.
I noticed that I had some bucket errors along the lines of “I will have to admit to those nasty outgroup memers that I’ve been evil+dumb all along, and accept their righteous judgment!” Once I had written it explicitly, the correction pretty much wrote itself: good-vs-evil is oversimplified at best, being wrong doesn’t make you dumb, and hateful memers deserve no one’s attention, regardless of what faction anyone is in.