An excuse, he takes whatever he can to resume his actions, to justify them.

Something childlike in the commander, which is disturbing given the amount of power and control he has. Recalling her previous life with Luke, with others, old America.

She keeps saying that she knows to see through his intentions and the lack of love that she has realised come through with the Commander. Juxtaposed with "Right now I almost like him."

She clarifies that he means Cora because she also pities the girl that came before her, which is a reflection of what Offred will eventually be. This is a lack of understanding on his side.

The commander doesn't even know the conditions that he created. Like a child playing with and ruining his dolls.

THE most frustrating part is trying to convince ppl they've been fooled, it's 99% impossible in my experience.

blame pacifism, where all feel smart, where all consequences are postponed to "later".<br /> "all you can do is warn them. if they dont listen, move on so you can warn others."

The idea of growing wiser vs. growing tall is likely not meant for the individual but for society as a whole or the world at large. The full context of the song. But it might have double meaning and refer to both individual and society.

Reminds me of Taleb's concept of Epistemic Arrogance (overvaluing that which we know)

for - question - planetary emergency - ignorance or apathy - what should we do?

question - planetary emergency - ignorance or apathy - what should we do? - Johan Rockstrom advocates for three simultaneous internventions that must be executed in order to achieve the following impacts: - Legally binding global governance regimes must be implemented: immediately - Paris Agreement - biodiversity agreements - Internalize all externalities - Implement a global price on carbon emissions of at least 100 USD / ton - Stop all expansion of human activity into intact nature

Interesting thread about Paris Hilton.

Main takeaway: Don't be quick to judge. Only form an opinion based on education; thorough research, evidence-based. If you don't want to invest the effort, then don't form an opinion. Simple as that.

Similar to "Patience" by Nas & Damian Marley.

Also Charlie Munger: "I never allow myself to have [express] an opinion about anything that I don't know the opponent side's argument better than they do."

(2:03) "The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of. And still won't research and find the root of the truth that you seek of."

So true this quote. Dunning-Krueger. Ignorance. Stupidity.

Men should listen to Charlie Munger's advice: "I never allow myself to have [express] an opinion about anything that I don't know the opponent side's argument better than they do."

Fixed mindset. Self fulfilling prophecies. Ignorance.

One point for having many unread books is to show the extent of ignorance and develop intellectual humility.

As Confucius already said: "True knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N92J1PiQXX0

Résumé de la vidéo [00:00:02][^1^][1] - [00:31:48][^2^][2]:

Cette vidéo, intitulée "La fabrique de l'ignorance" par ARTE, explore comment l'industrie et certains acteurs créent délibérément de l'ignorance ou du doute pour entraver le progrès scientifique et éviter la responsabilité. Elle examine des cas historiques et contemporains où la recherche scientifique est manipulée ou discréditée pour protéger les intérêts commerciaux, en particulier dans les industries du tabac, de l'agrochimie et des produits pharmaceutiques.

Points saillants: + [00:02:48][^3^][3] Le déclin des abeilles et les néonicotinoïdes * L'augmentation des pertes d'abeilles liée à l'usage des néonicotinoïdes * La confusion et le manque de consensus scientifique malgré les preuves * Les efforts pour détourner l'attention vers d'autres causes possibles + [00:10:43][^4^][4] L'industrie du tabac et la manipulation de la science * La stratégie de l'industrie pour créer du doute sur les dangers du tabac * L'utilisation de la recherche scientifique pour discréditer la science établie * La révélation des tactiques de l'industrie grâce aux documents internes divulgués + [00:18:00][^5^][5] La fabrique du doute et ses conséquences * L'impact de la désinformation sur la santé publique et l'environnement * La lutte contre la réglementation et les poursuites judiciaires par la création de doute * Les retards dans la reconnaissance des vérités scientifiques et les coûts humains associés + [00:29:01][^6^][6] L'agnotologie et l'étude de l'ignorance * La naissance de l'agnotologie, l'étude de l'ignorance délibérément produite * L'importance de comprendre les obstacles à la connaissance et au progrès scientifique * La nécessité de sensibiliser le public aux tactiques utilisées pour semer la confusion Résumé de la vidéo [00:31:58][^1^][1] - [01:00:35][^2^][2]:

La vidéo explore le concept d'agnotologie, l'étude de la production culturelle de l'ignorance. Elle examine comment l'ignorance est stratégiquement fabriquée par des industries telles que le tabac et les plastiques pour influencer la perception publique et les politiques. La vidéo met en lumière les tactiques utilisées pour semer le doute sur les risques pour la santé et les impacts environnementaux, et comment les scientifiques et les régulateurs luttent pour établir la vérité.

Points saillants: + [00:32:00][^3^][3] L'agnotologie * Intersection de diverses disciplines * Comprendre la production de l'ignorance * Protéger contre la désinformation + [00:33:01][^4^][4] Les pratiques scientifiques * Importance des méthodes de recherche * Protocoles comme points de vulnérabilité * Manipulation des résultats par des protocoles mal conçus + [00:37:02][^5^][5] L'industrie du tabac * Attaques contre l'épidémiologie * Stratégies pour discréditer les risques du tabagisme passif * Influence sur les normes de recherche + [00:45:09][^6^][6] Les perturbateurs endocriniens * Découverte d'effets à des doses infimes * Remise en question des principes de toxicologie * Résistance de l'industrie face aux preuves scientifiques Résumé de la vidéo [01:00:37][^1^][1] - [01:31:03][^2^][2]:

La troisième partie de la vidéo explore les tactiques utilisées par certaines industries pour discréditer la science environnementale et promouvoir leurs intérêts. Elle révèle comment l'industrie de l'amiante a orchestré l'Appel de Heidelberg pour saper les recherches sur les dangers de l'amiante, en se présentant comme défenseur de la "bonne science". La vidéo examine également la manière dont les climatosceptiques utilisent les réseaux sociaux pour diffuser leurs idées et comment des idéologies personnelles peuvent influencer la perception de la science.

Points saillants: + [01:00:37][^3^][3] L'Appel de Heidelberg * Un texte soutenant le progrès scientifique contre l'écologisme "irrationnel" * Révélé comme une initiative de l'industrie de l'amiante pour discréditer la science environnementale * Utilisation de la rhétorique de la "bonne science" pour déformer le langage et les faits + [01:06:03][^4^][4] La manipulation du langage * L'industrie a redéfini la "bonne science" pour favoriser ses intérêts * Les chercheurs documentant les risques sont classés comme "mauvaise science" * Création d'une fausse dichotomie entre science fondée sur des preuves et "déni de science" + [01:09:58][^5^][5] Les réseaux sociaux et le climatoscepticisme * Les climatosceptiques forment des communautés denses et actives sur Twitter * Utilisation de faits alternatifs pour contrer les preuves scientifiques du changement climatique * L'Institut Heartland, un think tank climatosceptique influent, propage des idées contraires au consensus scientifique + [01:17:22][^6^][6] Idéologie et science * Certains scientifiques climatosceptiques motivés par des convictions idéologiques plutôt que financières * La lutte contre le réchauffement climatique perçue comme une menace pour le libre marché et les valeurs personnelles * L'influence de l'économie sur la recherche scientifique et la liberté académique Résumé de la vidéo [01:31:07][^1^][1] - [01:35:59][^2^][2]:

La partie 4 de la vidéo aborde la manière dont l'économie de marché influence la science, en valorisant et privilégiant les recherches lucratives. Les chercheurs sont poussés à générer des fonds et à suivre les tendances pour obtenir des financements, ce qui oriente la science dans une direction spécifique et laisse d'autres domaines inexplorés.

Points forts: + [01:31:07][^3^][3] Influence de l'économie de marché * La science lucrative est favorisée * Les chercheurs doivent attirer des fonds * La compétition entre laboratoires est intense + [01:32:02][^4^][4] Tendances de la recherche * Les mots clés comme "génomique" et "nanotechnologie" attirent des financements * L'intelligence artificielle est le mot clé actuel * La recherche est orientée par ces tendances + [01:33:01][^5^][5] La science non faite * Des domaines scientifiques sont négligés faute d'impératif commercial * La "science non faite" représente des connaissances jamais explorées * L'ignorance est parfois choisie ou financièrement motivée + [01:35:06][^6^][6] La fabrique de l'ignorance * L'agnotologie étudie la production délibérée de l'ignorance * Les chercheurs en agnotologie sont une nouvelle force pour le public * Ils protègent la science et sa progression méticuleuse

His point is that ignorance is bliss -- all is destroyed from knowing, from suspecting, from understanding. (connects to Blake)

Iago has not elaborated or said much, it is Othello who is prying deeper and deeper into "knowing" what he should not, into peering into something that would disturb his peace. This connects to Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. It is then Othello's fault for looking for answers to his suspicions which he confirms with confirmation bias.

Résumé de la vidéo [00:00:00][^1^][1] - [00:05:58][^2^][2]:

Cette vidéo explore le concept de l'ignorance pluraliste, démontrant comment les individus dans un groupe peuvent s'aligner sur une opinion commune sans nécessairement être d'accord, simplement parce qu'ils perçoivent un faux consensus.

Points forts: + [00:00:09][^3^][3] Ignorance pluraliste * Notion produisant des consensus illusoires + [00:00:32][^4^][4] Comportement de groupe * Importance de l'association à un groupe * Conformisme basé sur la perception du consensus + [00:01:09][^5^][5] Conformisme et silence * Tendance à se taire si les autres semblent d'accord * Risque de camoufler le désaccord réel + [00:02:50][^6^][6] Nécessité de la contradiction * Importance des voix discordantes pour la vérité * Le débat permet de clarifier les raisons d'une croyance + [00:03:56][^7^][7] Démocratie et débat * La contradiction est essentielle en démocratie * Les bons arguments doivent être distingués des mauvais + [00:05:25][^8^][8] Consensus et critique * Le consensus non testé peut être illusoire * Importance de la pensée critique et de la parole alternative

La nécessité de promouvoir la connaissance face aux défis mondiaux tels que les transformations environnementales, numériques et les luttes contre les inégalités en tout genre semble reconnue de tous.

Pourquoi alors ce paradoxe entre les discours politiques sur l'importance de l'éducation et de la recherche, la réalité des budgets alloués, les actions entreprises ?

Si rien n'est entrepris, quel sera le prix de l'ignorance ? Et comment lutter contre l'ignorance qui s'ignore, que l'on soit citoyen ou professionnel ?

Une table ronde avec Bertrand Monthubert (Ancien Président de l'Université Toulouse III-Paul-Sabatier, Président du Conseil National de l'Information Géolocalisée, d'Ekitia, d'OPenIG et du GT Data Governance du GPAI), Thierry Ripoll (Professeur des Universités en sciences cognitives, auteur) et Eric Valmir (alors secrétaire général de l'information du groupe Radio France, aujourd'hui directeur Territorial Sud Ouest France Bleu)

This is a courageous and highly important documentary. Sadly, when I share with some friends, most outright tell me to keep the negativity to myself. I guess Ignorance is bliss, but also dangerous. Thank you for sharing this work for all. I’ll do my best to spread the word to anyone open to hearing/watching.

the only paradox = contradiction with such ignorant = shortsighted peeople<br /> is that they want to continue living, but only as long as life is easy.<br /> as soon as life gets hard, these are the first ones who run away to suicide.

so the paradox is, that i dont have a right to kill such obviously useless people today,<br /> because i am "only" 99% certain, and they are betting on the remaining 1% that i am wrong.

as they say:<br /> All you can do is warn them. If they dont listen, move on, so you can warn others.

• for: ignorance becomes the mirror-like wisdom

farm work is by far the most important work.

its crazy how farm work gets almost zero attention in this article.

hey idiots? have fun starving!

The data of the past is congruent with the current psychological trends that face the education system of today. Developmentalists have charted how children construct and revise intuitive theories. In turn, a variety of theories have developed because of the greater use of statistical information that supports probabilistic contingencies that help to better inform us of causal models and their distinctive cognitive functions. These studies investigate the physical, psychological, and social domains. In the case of intuitive psychology, or "theory of mind," developmentalism has traced a progression from an early understanding of emotion and action to an understanding of intentions and simple aspects of perception, to an understanding of knowledge vs. ignorance, and finally to a representational and then an interpretive theory of mind.

The mechanisms by which life evolved—from chemical beginnings to cognizing human beings—are central to understanding the psychological basis of learning. We are the product of an evolutionary process and it is the mechanisms inherent in this process that offer the most probable explanations to how we think and learn.

Bada, & Olusegun, S. (2015). Constructivism Learning Theory : A Paradigm for Teaching and Learning.

p. xxiv

Hutchins seems to indicate that the "vicious specialization of scholarship" is in part to blame for the emergence of the "two cultures" delineated by C. P. Snow later in the decade.

humility is wisdom:

[[education is a gradual realization of our ignorance]]

"Education is a gradual realization of our own ignorance. The expansion of one's awareness of of one's own ignorance as one learns ensures that the educated person remains humble about knowledge and understanding." - Everybody is Ignorant, Only on Different Subjects

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/opinion/college-learning-students-success.html

• Comment
• Observation
  • it is known that warfare is a significant source of technological innovation
  • this can be explained by evolutionary biology
  • our instruct for survival is strongest in ( inter-species) conflict
  • such is the deep irony of human progress
  • now, in the Anthropocene, humanity is waging another war for survival, caused by our war against nature
• we can characterized this war as a war against past ignorance

https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Ignorant+men+raise+questions+that+wise+men+answered+a+thousand+years+ago.&search%5Bsource%5D=goodreads&search_type=quotes&tab=quotes

Ignorant people raise questions which were answered by the wise thousands of years ago.<br /> — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Maxims and Reflections)

That's not required. The standard doesn't require this to be a URL locator — merely a URI! So you can just make up a URI and use it even if it's not resolvable. ... like you did for the URN below.

Another way to articulate our two ignorances: we're overwhelmingly tempted to believe when we have perceptual experience including introspective experience of our own minds we think that we know that content immediately. When we are experiencing a cognitive state, we believe we know that state and the idea that our inner states present themselves to introspection even trained introspection just as they are

Jay introduces the purpose of Buddhism is to get to the root of suffering, shine the light of wisdom on it to dissipate the ignorance.

The ignorance manifests in two ways: 1. We have an immediate and indubitable knowledge of our own minds 2. we impose an equally compelling subject/object dualism upon our nondual reality

The world is steeped in ignorance of the sacred. This ignorance creates the atmosphere of distrust. It is also dependently arisen. Ignorance and all the harm it brings, emerges in the same way as wisdom does, and from the same source, a source we can trust in.

all pervasive ignorance is the ignorance at the deepest level. When that is removed, all the other more superficial levels of ignorance go away as well.

There is no independent existence. Everything is in relation.

This definitely requires systematic research and exposure as it is a ploy used often in both business and politics for supporting plausible deniability. Hey, I didn't know, you can't blame me! If you manufacture your own ignorance knowing that the truth could expose harm, then you need to take responsibility for shirking responsibility. In fact, there should be debate about whether this could become a legal precedent.

Willful ignorance, intentional ignorance. For those who are economically benefiting, ignorance that ignores data that threatens their economic livelihood causes maladaptive behavior to intentionally ignore the data that maintains one's own economic benefits.

Behavioral science definition of strategic ignorance.

We are each steeped in infinite ignorance but that analytic knowing cannot compare to the embodied wisdom of simply INTERbeing in which we are the natural embodiment of all the laws of the universe keeping us alive and in a state of INTERbeing Embodying the wisdom is far more inline and in harmony with the universe than knowing about it Embodiment is already our natural articulation of the living truth

Collective illusion is having major harmful social impacts today, bring about polarization and conflict. It has also been called pluralistic ignorance and ignorance of universality.

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, February 1). @MaartenvSmeden @richarddmorey 2/2 Having conducted experiments on lay understanding of arguments from ignorance, in my experience, people intuitively understand probabilistic impact of factors, such as quality of search, that moderate strength. Rather than build on that, we work against it with slogan! [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1356228495714746370

So very true. Monsters are made, not born. Everyone is born into the sacred, but then life can transform the sACred into the sCAred. Pathological fear can motivate a host of pathological responses such as selfishness, alienation, greed, anger, control, abuse, othering,dehumanization, etc.

ReconfigBehSci. (2022, January 9). There are many things I would not have believed about the pandemic pre 2020, but top of them is the fact that Western nations would completely ignore 24 months worth of actually implemented policies that were vastly more successful [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1480162136240398339

Argument quality and fallacies. (n.d.). HackMD. Retrieved January 17, 2022, from https://hackmd.io/@scibehC19vax/argumentquality

ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘there is a literature on arguments from ignorance (viewed from a Bayesian perspective) that can help here, I think https://t.co/tg1Jlrlldg’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 3 September 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1432409133957869572

https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/writing-a-life

Jacobs suggests taking the idea of "walking a mile in another's shoes" to a higher level. He takes Herman Hesse's idea in The Glass Bead Game of the Castalian community's writing a Life in which people write an autobiography about seeing themselves placed in other times/places in history.

Similar examples he includes:

• Flannery O'Connor's story "Revelation" in which a woman chooses being remade as "white trash" or a Black woman.
• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin (1961)
• White Like Me, a Saturday Night Live skit featuring Eddie Murphy
• Soul Sister by Grace Halsell
• Rachel Dolezal passing as black because she felt it was her identity
• John Rawls' "veil of ignorance"

Jacob suggests this could be a useful exercise for people to attempt, particularly as a senior exercise for university students.

Quote from the video:

here for the unaware, rather than the ignorant —Margo Neale

Ross, L. (2020). How Intellectual Communities Progress. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/k6yux

Facts v feelings: How to stop our emotions misleading us. (2020, September 10). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/10/facts-v-feelings-how-to-stop-emotions-misleading-us

So to say nothing is enough proof that there is no merit to this experiment? Isn't Ezra's thoughts inspired by textbooks/an intention to mimic the scientific process?

I feel like such ignorance towards science is relevant today *cough*,*cough* people who refuse to wear face masks *cough*,*cough*

US, A. B., The Conversation. (n.d.). Coronavirus Responses Highlight How Humans Have Evolved to Dismiss Facts That Don’t Fit Their Worldview. Scientific American. Retrieved June 30, 2020, from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coronavirus-responses-highlight-how-humans-have-evolved-to-dismiss-facts-that-dont-fit-their-worldview/

Beyer-Hunt, S., Carter, J., Goh, A., Li, N., & Natamanya, S.M. (2020, May 14) COVID-19 and the Politics of Knowledge: An Issue and Media Source Primer. SPIN. https://secrecyresearch.com/2020/05/14/covid19-spin-primer/

Lees, J. M., Cetron, J. S., Vollberg, M. C., Reggev, N., & Cikara, M. (2020, May 20). Intentions to comply with COVID-19 preventive behaviors are associated with personal beliefs, independent of perceived social norms. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/97jry

Barrafrem, K., Västfjäll, D., & Tinghög, G. (2020, April 30). Financial well-being, COVID-19, and the financial better-than-average-effect. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/tkuaf

Huang, K., Bernhard, R., Barak-Corren, N., bazerman, m., & Greene, J. D. (2020, April 22). Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors Allocating Resources to Younger Patients During the COVID-19 Crisis. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/npm4v

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If we know anything about ancient Rome, it's that the populous was religious, moral, lovers of the arts and law. /s

Intent matters. Ignorance, though, can not be used as an excuse.

"If people were more aware of x, then they would realize they're wrong about y, and they would do z" is a line that is constantly repeated in my WGST classes, and I always look like an asshole when I argue that that's not how things work.

This is the politics of ignorance at play. If you acknowledge that there is a problem, you must then address that problem. You must do something about that problem. If you don't want to do something, then you will choose not to acknowledge that there is a problem.

In addition, the societal construct at the time determined their livelihood. I especially like her word choice of "ignorance," because I think it can apply to both whites and African Americans: whites are ignorant of the struggles that African Americans face and cannot truly know/understand their experiences; African Americans are ignorant of their own capabilities and do not understand their true potential, as society's judgments of them have clouded their self-image and have influenced them to think less of themselves. I don't know if she intended this, but it has a somewhat psychological connotation in regards to self-perception in light of the rhetoric/environment/society at the time.

A speaker's goal is to eliminate idiocy or carelessness, and how he goals about solving either one determines how he dispels the lies. Ignorant people need to be shown observable and repeatable evidence, careless people need their conviction to the lie to be broken. To Campbell, knowing the difference is crucial to the power of one's rhetoric.

Stallman often uses a similar idea to condemn proprietary software. Rushkoff proposes a similar alternative. Should we choose the red pill or the blue pill?

I need to reach out to my guide because I have been in denial of Reality and blocking it, I have been insisting on ignoring it.

The ego attempts to use the need for one to ask for guidance as evidence to prove that I am not Who I really am.

Small, fragile, and tenuously suspended and preserved, encased in ignorance, by the same substance, ego, source of good and ill. It reminds me of the fable of a woman hanging from a cliff by a thin reed, tigers above and tigers below, and spying a ripe strawberry plucks and savors its sweetness, as a parable for life.

The ignorant are fearless. Is this why my writer's block has gotten worse in college? Now I know how much there is I can do wrong I'm afraid to even begin?