Comment by jandrese

6 days ago

But your approach results in someone who can't even conceive of the truth being identifiable. It doesn't seem like a great way to run a society.

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potato3732842  6 days ago

Having the power to determine truth does not seem like a great way to run a society even if it gets you some easy wins on other fronts.

It might work at first and be effective for some time in the same way that a dictator can "get things done" but there is no free lunch.

Eventually you will get evil dictators, power hungry arbitrators of truth. It will bite you. It is only a question of when. It might be years or generations. The only winning move is not to play. Don't concentrate the power in the first place.

baggy_trough  6 days ago

I am unable to connect your sentence to what I said.

  • jandrese  6 days ago

    > I have no faith that there is some authoritative entity that could objectively determine what is a lie and what is the truth.

    I read this as "it is impossible to determine truth". If there exists a well resourced entity who's entire purpose in life is to determine objective truth and they are unable to do so what chance do I have?