Reality doesn't care about your opinion

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3 points·piinbinary··5 comments

Hence the push in the USA to jigger data like the US Census, or just not collect the data, like the Dickey Amendment, or the state of Florida shutting down collecting COVID data, coroners that have never given covid as a cause of death.

Even more blatantly, the 2020 election Big Lie. Zero data, just opinions and feelings

Once you've got The God Given Truth, it's important to not collect data that contradicts it.

Unfortunately, the first assumption is incorrect, maybe at the level of quantum physics. More macro definitions of "reality" get even more fuzzy. Blue vs black dress etc. Sometimes heterogeneity is the reality.

The article is arguing that for all intents and purposes there is one objective reality, as science points out (otherwise it wouldn't work). The question tends to be, is this a sufficient explanation of objective reality, or is it still biased somehow.

I think the observation holds, and somehow society is putting way more value on subjective reality, especially around personal identity. One of the features of science is removing subjectivity, and proving something with the least amount of personal bias.

I dare say personal identity is wholly and explicitly subjective. Are you claiming otherwise?

"Gravity doesn't care." -C. J. Cherryh

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