Meditations and Learnings

Meditations and Learnings

Utopia | The Axiom of the Infinite Unknown #12



We discuss:

  • What does “Utopia” even mean?
  • Different types of Utopia and the self-contradictory nature that arises between them.
  • The epistemic arrogance in assuming we know precisely how a perfect society would look.
  • The danger of Utopian thinking is its facilitation of reaching “infinite good” by any means necessary.
  • How knowledge that most accurately reflects reality grows.
  • Nassim Taleb’s Epistemocracy.
  • Inescapable ignorance and hence the fundamental importance for error-correcting mechanisms.
  • Educational priorities in terms of acquiring a finite amount of knowledge versus acquiring tools to navigate an infinite amount of unknowledge. 
  • Ignorance and death as unifying components of human life. 

Ciaran O’ Regan:
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James Valaitis:
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