SilasBarta comments on Reason as memetic immune disorder - Less Wrong

215 Post author: PhilGoetz 19 September 2009 09:05PM

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Comment author: Steve_Rayhawk 20 September 2009 07:06:05PM 2 points [-]

But if the culture is constrained to hold opposite meta-norms constant, such as a norm of seeing the blind spots or a norm of actually doing what one's religion or cultural norms tell one do do, then the resulting selection will act against the dangerous memes instead.

(Sometimes I worry about the problem of how to extend the principle of charity to memes that cannot be safely taken literally.)

Comment author: SilasBarta 21 September 2009 03:14:48PM 2 points [-]

My answer is to judge them by the success of the actions they lead their practioners to do, not the falsifiable (or deliberately unfalsifiable) claims about reality they espouse.