I haven’t seen these analyses into definitions and causes done with rigor. It also seems very hard to achieve rigor in these analyses, given that the information into individual psychology and sociology of specific institutions we’d need to do so successfully is hard to come by.
As such, the tack these authors take is often not to attempt such a rigorous analyses, but instead to go straight from their current model, composed of guesswork, to activist claims about how to improve the world and the level of destruction caused by that guesswork-based model.
The analysis, then, seems to be of a guesswork-based, ill-defined model with limited predictive power or falsifiability, involving a lot of arguing with organizations and people you perceive as propagandists for empirically and morally wrong views. It also seems to involve a tendency to discourage behaviors that could disconfirm the assumptions.
But I don’t want to tear into it too deeply. I recognize that simulacra levels point at something real. I also think that doing this too much would be hypocritical.
If I saw more attempts to falsify the model or use it to make predictions, I’d be happier with it.
I haven’t seen these analyses into definitions and causes done with rigor. It also seems very hard to achieve rigor in these analyses, given that the information into individual psychology and sociology of specific institutions we’d need to do so successfully is hard to come by.
As such, the tack these authors take is often not to attempt such a rigorous analyses, but instead to go straight from their current model, composed of guesswork, to activist claims about how to improve the world and the level of destruction caused by that guesswork-based model.
The analysis, then, seems to be of a guesswork-based, ill-defined model with limited predictive power or falsifiability, involving a lot of arguing with organizations and people you perceive as propagandists for empirically and morally wrong views. It also seems to involve a tendency to discourage behaviors that could disconfirm the assumptions.
But I don’t want to tear into it too deeply. I recognize that simulacra levels point at something real. I also think that doing this too much would be hypocritical.
If I saw more attempts to falsify the model or use it to make predictions, I’d be happier with it.