Rob Sica(@robsica):🔪"Precisely because they emerge from widespread, adaptive motivations to co-opt the social-epistemic machinery of norms, reputations, and coordination to non-epistemic ends, they are a common outcome of perfectly normal psychological and social processes."

Rob Sica

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"Knowledge would have little allure if we did not have to overcome so much shame on the way to acquiring it." -Nietzsche (@robsica.bsky.social)

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Rob Sica@robsica

2026.07.18 13:37

🔪"Precisely because they emerge from widespread, adaptive motivations to co-opt the social-epistemic machinery of norms, reputations, and coordination to non-epistemic ends, they are a common outcome of perfectly normal psychological and social processes."