Even if the output of free speech is just a lie from the other-side, it enables more rapid error correction in similar ways to the messy market creates increased wealth.
Free Speech is great, and recent events have provided a classic demonstration.
Free speech on the internet (and the fight to preserve it) has allowed facts to come to light which were previously hidden by gatekeepers. Race and IQ is an important example.
Many people are pathologically incapable of facing reality, let alone the truth about their lives. This is the result of their natural inclination based on personality traits and in some cases on serious mental disorders. This all supports Caplan’s thesis that pretty lies are psychologically appealing compared to ugly truths.
Even if the output of free speech is just a lie from the other-side, it enables more rapid error correction in similar ways to the messy market creates increased wealth.
The idea that free speech leads directly to truth is, itself, something of a pretty ... falsehood.
A conceit.
But censorship very definitely suppresses truth. Whatever it is.
Free Speech is great, and recent events have provided a classic demonstration.
Free speech on the internet (and the fight to preserve it) has allowed facts to come to light which were previously hidden by gatekeepers. Race and IQ is an important example.
Just look at America compared to the UK.
Even more relevant now, in the days of Trump II.
Many people are pathologically incapable of facing reality, let alone the truth about their lives. This is the result of their natural inclination based on personality traits and in some cases on serious mental disorders. This all supports Caplan’s thesis that pretty lies are psychologically appealing compared to ugly truths.
YES!!!