Salam users,
Say I have a question plucked from the pool of oft-repeated internet discussions. Who do I ask? If I'm to ask it on this platform, what reason is there to trust your opinion? Many can write at length and quote from works that I myself have difficulty understanding; and others chime in with arguments of their own, just as confident.
Some advise that I should reason through it myself, that I'm my own final arbiter to the questions I bring. However, I always found this advice weirdly circular: taking this advice means that I've already deferred some judgement over to them. That's to say, I already chose to trust them the moment I brought up my query.
How should I, then, learn? How can one determine that their own judgement is the trustworthy decision?
Say I have that same question, why should I trust that it's a viable question to begin with? What if, by my own belief in the value of said question, that the conclusion is already defined?
I dislike this practically infinite access to information because I doubt that I could parse through it and come out having formed an independent opinion. It really looks like I've jumped between camps adopting their normative positions. And each camp has its self-narrative - unspoken but pervasive - that directs what questions are worth asking and what the answers are supposed to look like.
And consider if my access to information is actually infinite when I don't recognise myself moving along to the suggestions of an algorithm, then what independence did I really have in formulating my own beliefs?
To say what I dislike while I'm engaging in it, it's seems clear that I've already made a decision - even if I'm not mindful of it.
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