[ilaksh]

I agree that people generally should realize that their broad viewpoints on subjects that they are not familiar with are in a different category from those that they are very familiar with or those that are about specific situations. I disagree that the issue is just that these systems are too complex to understand on any level or that we can avoid having worldviews that encompass these subjects.

I mean we can just acknowledge that we have different worldviews rather than everyone having to agree that things are too complex to understand. I agree they are complex but that doesn't mean I can avoid having views on them.

[plainOldText]

> I mean we can just acknowledge that we have different worldviews rather than everyone having to agree that things are too complex to understand

Sure, we all have world views. When it comes to predictive power however, some world views are superior to others. At the end of the day, and at the level of detail we're currently capable of understanding reality, all of our models are wrong, but some are useful, hence why we keep pushing the process of scientific method, even though it has its limitations.

By acknowledging that something is complex, we can recognize we are limited in our ability to understand it – at least for now – which in turn leads us to question our current views and seek to discover and adopt better models, with even more predictive power.

[skybrian]

The problem isn't so much having opinions as expecting strangers to value them.

When you are just another commenter on the Internet, your opinion just doesn't matter that much. It can be hard to get used to that.

Instead of just sharing our outputs, we need to share inputs. What did you read or experience?