The hundred year functioning of democracy begs to differ. It literally works nothing like how anyone tells themselves it does, not just laypeople, but arguably even political scientists. It's quite possible that no echelon of society has had the correct story so far, and yet... (again, see "Democracy for Realists")
Also, the vision heuristics that brains use to help us monitor motion as another obvious example. They lie. They work. They won.
Agreed. We define science and science is truth about base reality.
> Objective truth is crucial to [...] progress.
More contentious imho. Depends if progress is some abstract human ideal that we pursue, or simply "survival". If it's the former, maybe objective truth is required. If it's the latter, I find the simulation evidence to be that over-adherence to objective truth (at least information-theoretically) is in fact detrimental to our survival.
Also, the vision heuristics that brains use to help us monitor motion as another obvious example. They lie. They work. They won.
https://x.com/foone/status/1014267515696922624?s=46
> Objective truth is crucial to science
Agreed. We define science and science is truth about base reality.
> Objective truth is crucial to [...] progress.
More contentious imho. Depends if progress is some abstract human ideal that we pursue, or simply "survival". If it's the former, maybe objective truth is required. If it's the latter, I find the simulation evidence to be that over-adherence to objective truth (at least information-theoretically) is in fact detrimental to our survival.