Once you’re in a position to actually influence policy, then maybe it makes sense to have opinions about policy.
TDT/UDT-type reasoning makes this a little less straightforward. The question isn’t, “Am I personally in a position to influence policy?”. The question is more like, “Consider the collection of people whose opinions on policy are logically correlated with my own. Are these people, in the aggregate, in a position to influence policy?”.
TDT/UDT-type reasoning makes this a little less straightforward. The question isn’t, “Am I personally in a position to influence policy?”. The question is more like, “Consider the collection of people whose opinions on policy are logically correlated with my own. Are these people, in the aggregate, in a position to influence policy?”.