Haidt-speech
a lot of sophisticated sounding words covering a flawed, irrational framework.
a particular variety of “begging the question” in which the very things the author criticizes, he also uses to support his own position.
derived from social psychologist/philosopher john haidt’s attacking arguments against sam harris, over harris’ $10,000 challenge for someone to provide a written argument compelling enough to change harris’ mind re: the central premise in the book, “the moral landscape.”
exemplified in this article: www.thisviewoflife.com/index.php/magazine/articles/why-sam-harris-is-unlikely-to-change-his-mind10
haidt writes early on:
” n-body has yet found a way to “debias” people—to train people to look for evidence on the other side—once emotions or self-interest are activated.”
“saying human reason is a failure in battling emotions… except when it isn’t… is pure haidt-speech.”
yet later, provides a direct counter example:
“this is why science works so well. scientists suffer from the confirmation bias like everybody else, but the genius of science as an inst-tution is that it incentivizes scientists to disconfirm each others’ ideas, and it creates a community within which a reasoned consensus eventually emerges.”
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