I think that power/incentives often come first, then organizations and ecosystems shape their epidemics to some degree in order to be convenient. This makes it quite difficult what causally led to what.
At the same time, I’m similarly suspicious of a lot of epistemics. It’s obviously not just beliefs that OP likes that will be biased to favor convenience. Arguably a lot of these beliefs just replace other bad beliefs that were biased to favor other potential stakeholders or other bad incentives.
Generally I’m quite happy for people and institutions to be quite suspicious of their worldviews and beliefs, especially ones that are incentivized by their surroundings.
(I previously wrote about some of this in my conveniences post here, though that post didn’t get much attention.)
That roughly sounds right to me.
I think that power/incentives often come first, then organizations and ecosystems shape their epidemics to some degree in order to be convenient. This makes it quite difficult what causally led to what.
At the same time, I’m similarly suspicious of a lot of epistemics. It’s obviously not just beliefs that OP likes that will be biased to favor convenience. Arguably a lot of these beliefs just replace other bad beliefs that were biased to favor other potential stakeholders or other bad incentives.
Generally I’m quite happy for people and institutions to be quite suspicious of their worldviews and beliefs, especially ones that are incentivized by their surroundings.
(I previously wrote about some of this in my conveniences post here, though that post didn’t get much attention.)