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Re:Inverted computer culture: A thought experiment by Jiro on Monday March 06, 2023 @05:33PM (#35048726)
It's like asking "would you believe in homeopathy if doctors all told you that it was correct?"

To which the answer is "Doctors believe things for reasons. You can't just flip a switch and change what doctors think without changing the entire world so that homeopathy is actually true, and that would be such a weird world that science in it would be unrecognizeable."

(And since I'm not ChatGPT, I can answer your entire question: "Such a story would have an incoherent world. I could imagine someone writing a story that takes place in an incoherent world, but you wouldn't be able to get useful insights from it.")

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Re:Inverted computer culture: A thought experiment by pxc on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @12:56AM (#35052078)
> Doctors believe things for reasons. You can't just flip a switch and change what doctors think without changing the entire world so that homeopathy is actually true,

Doctors and scientists have believed false things en masse before, sometimes for hundreds of years at a time. You are confessing to an inability to imagine the real history of the very social practices (science and medicine) that you see yourself as somehow defending here.

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