[vintermann]

Everyone has a "world model". These models just differ on how much they care about various things. No one has a "world model" which literally encompasses everything about the world, that wouldn't be a model at all, it'd just be the world, much like a 1:1 map.

Also, no one has a "world model" that is purely based on experiment and reason. Everyone gets their beliefs via other people first and foremost. Some get it from few people, some get it from many people (many people can still be wrong!).

For code, you may have the model of what it does strictly from reason and experience - but probably only if you're the only author. And you can still damn well be wrong, as we all know.

[AstralStorm]

For a lot of people, the world models are really rough and incomplete, so they really really on common opinion on these matters.

This is the same if you tried asking a general populace ethical questions in a vacuum sneakily. You're going to be dismayed after collecting the set of approved behaviors per culture.

There's not really a way to evaluate one of these.

[UncleMeat]

I am enormously skeptical of unsourced claims that boil down to "most people are substantially dumber than me, the enlightened one."

[pnutjam]

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/605/transcript