Sarah Saab: belief

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…This comes up quite a lot on the show actually that there's there's a perspective or constructive relative idea of a concept, which is that all of these different people with their different experiences, you know, they they have a perspective on something. And then in the in the info sphere, you know, this this thing emerges. It's quite nebulous. And we roughly draw a boundary around it and we say that that's the thing. But actually, it's just it's a million pointers from different people to this cloud and it's you can't really reduce it to a single thing. 100%. I'm I'm I'm really sort of vibing with the way you described that. And I think the very first thing we need to do is try to get perspective into the mix through representativeness. At the very least, right? Knowing that there isn't this single very well defined concept of, let's say, generosity or morality. At the very least, we need to get lots of credible and durable perspectives on these things in from the humans of the world, you know. And I say at the very least, but actually that's a very tall order. The kinds of evaluation we're doing right now are so far from even that. The capital of Paris, lots of consensus on that, I would hope. Is abortion illegal? And by the way, got this from the prison paper from Hanno Kirk, so maybe we can bring that in as well. There there are so many, you know, so many things in our culture that we just don't agree on. How should we deal with that?…

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