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A dare to point out the king has no clothes by insinuating that something that is high-status isn't real.Chesterton's fence applies: sometimes the delusions are there for a reason, we just don't remember why, or never knew to begin with. https://t.co/6KZ0yoyhAZ
Meta-Chesterton's Fence: idea that reform should be made despite there being no understanding, b/c we also don't understand reform enough to understand why Chesterton's Fences exist to begin with. A Chesterton's Fence about applying Chesterton's Fence.https://t.co/QlGjdsiDZx
@vgr @literalbanana Not sure. I've been modeling it in my head as populations of ELI5 theories that compete with each other to try and balance out. In my head it ties into the 'leaky abstractions' ideas you were talking about at one point.https://t.co/rPqQjyk65s
Ideas fight in meme-spacetime for dominance."An evolution of ideas surviving in mind's agar."https://t.co/GjbBk8Vt7w
Relevant XKCDhttps://t.co/tdOj7MDYtlht https://t.co/ebp1EVmsWLvia https://t.co/wD1LjqGTJA
Tired: Chesterton's FenceWired: Chesterton's Card Castle.That's not just a memetic bug, it's a load bearing memetic bug!https://t.co/yNTloaOsEO
At a fundamental level, G.K. Chesterton was being an asshole about other people's belief systems, but never thought to apply his own thinking to his closely held beliefs?"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."― G.K. Chestertonhttps://t.co/6m0vpTy4lj