The fact Elon thinks TruthGPT could even be a thing, demonstrates how narrow his knowledge of epistemology is, and how thinking about society and politics as an engineer leaves much to be desired. Humanity is not an engineering problem.
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I don't quite understand your point. The overt bias in ChatGPT suggests, at the very least, room for improvement.
"Reason is a slave to the passions" -- David Hume.
There is objective truth to be found, outside of say, abstract mathematical entities. Within the context of human affairs, culture and politics, it's just subjectivism all the way down. The belief that information can be "neutral" is actually nonsense.
This is sometimes referred to as the "false balance" fallacy. But it's just epistemically true. At some point when you're constructing a narrative of the world, to communicate what you think is true, you're going to bring some subjective starting axiom into it (probably unconsciously) in order to bootstrap the whole process of reasoning through a cognizable narrative.
For society to even function, we have to ultimately have some shared subjective assumptions, otherwise all social cooperation becomes impossible.
At some bedrock, foundational, bare metal level, communication between human beings that yields a productive transmission of information, is dependent on bias. You couldn't even begin to have a shared understanding.
I meant to say there is NO objective truth to be found, outside of abstract mathematical entities.
I want to say, I understand why people don't want the above to be true. People are afraid that only nihilism lies behind that door, and they desperately pearl clutch their beliefs they have libertarian free will, and that objective truth is out there, merely obscured and distorted by corrupt institutions. The problem with this is, it's complete bullshit -- we made our whole society up.
This sounds like part of Nietzche’s message in Beyond Good and Evil. He believed that perspectives really stem from unconscious desires, and that philosophers…or anybody…create systems that answer to their unconscious needs, and then invent reasons after the fact which justify the “truth” they think they have discovered. People don’t discover truth; they invent new interpretations of if. Truth claims should be seen for what they are…perspectives that have been justified.
I am less and less certain about it.
Beware of anyone who claims to 'hold the truth'
Yeah, I mean, I am idiot. And I'm pretty sure everyone else is too. 🤷🏻♂️
Everything is just a paradox when it comes to epistemology.