[extropy-chat] Victoria News: Singularitarians in the City of Gardens

[Al Brooks]

Okay. But recently I've come to doubt, just for instance, economics-- economics is no science. And the social 'sciences' as they are taught in K-12 are junk, and perhaps in higher Ed as well.
  I honestly think legitimate grounds exist for not only skepticism but also cynicism & mistrust as well; that is harsh, but there's something to it. Nietzsche wrote, "there are rational reasons for abandoning rationalism". Would have to think about that a long time, but he was on to something.
  
>I also rely on evidence and patterns which mere passing observation 
>detects in the natural universe, if there's no reason to expect that 
>science could should and would test it. I rely on my eyes to tell me 
>whether my shoelace is untied; this fact is rationally knowable to me, 
>but it is not part of the publicly acessible knowledge of humankind, as 
>it would be if it were a replicable experiment published in a journal.

>Aside from that, the answer to your question is "Not intentionally."



		
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