I totally buy that peoples’ verbal models aren’t at a local nadir of connectedness-to-reality. The thing which seems increasingly disconnected from reality is more like metis, peoples’ day-to-day behavior and intuitive knowledge, institutional knowledge and skills, personal identity and goals, that sort of thing.
I’m notably not thinking here primarily about examples like e.g. heritability of IQ becoming politicized; that’s a verbal model, and I do think that verbal models have mostly become more reasonable modulo a few exceptions which people highlight.
I totally buy that peoples’ verbal models aren’t at a local nadir of connectedness-to-reality. The thing which seems increasingly disconnected from reality is more like metis, peoples’ day-to-day behavior and intuitive knowledge, institutional knowledge and skills, personal identity and goals, that sort of thing.
I’m notably not thinking here primarily about examples like e.g. heritability of IQ becoming politicized; that’s a verbal model, and I do think that verbal models have mostly become more reasonable modulo a few exceptions which people highlight.