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I am already sure that all communities include as core beliefs or very close to core, things that I am very confident are false.
I learned that from experience, but it is easy to come up in hindsight with theoretical reasons why that would be likely to be the case.
Yeah. How many groups in the distant past had core beliefs that are false? Pretty large percent. Even if the trend is going in the right direction, it seems unlikely we are out of the woods yet.