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Slogans are by design anti-epistemology. While they may have some sort of intuitive appeal, (and I'd be grateful if someone told me if there's a proper term to it) even one dimensional thinking will already bring up more questions than the small "makes sense" intuition can answer.
I accept that you believe that, but there are plenty of Less Wrongers who disagree. So this is a matter of difference of aesthetic preference about one's thought processes, rather than a matter of objective statement. After all, even "I notice I'm confused" or "update your beliefs" are slogans, and they seem to be conducive to good epistemology.
"I notice I'm confused" or "Update your beliefs" would make better T-shirt slogans.
Here's the "I notice I'm confused" shirt, and we are working on "Update Your Beliefs" :-)
The color of the letters makes a difficult contrast with the white background. That and the excessively thin font result in poor readability.
Thanks for the feedback, will let our designers know - appreciate it!
Both of those slogans can be used to justify bad epistemology, e.g. the first to justify rejecting a factual narrative that actually happened but doesn't happen to correspond to your pre-existing beliefs, and the second to assume that something is probable because a lot of people you know happen to be arguing for it.
Agreed they can be.