WWB Trainer
WWB Key Ideas
MODE:
~
4 minutes
of short abstracts.
OVM.
Some random key ideas.
1.
Confidence in ideas increases with alignment with reality — aligning with Popper, probability thinking, and intellectual humility.
2.
From History: 3 Types: Empirical, Rational, & Irrational
Avoid irrational pragmatists; they dismiss good evidence when it gets in the way.
3.
If life elsewhere follows patterns like those on Earth, play may emerge wherever intelligence and social complexity arise.
4.
From History:
It takes work, but OVM structures disagreement so that clarity replaces tribalismm, and calibrated dialogue replaces dogmatic assertion.
5.
A spiritual experience may shape a life, but private experience alone does not establish an empirical or rational claim about reality.
6.
From History: Reference Date: 2200 CE (+/- 50 years)
The Dawn of Empirical Spirituality imagines a future where religion better distinguishes truth from belief. Spiritual traditions may endure by honoring meaning, morality, and the unknowable while yielding empirical claims to science.
7.
Your people and culture give you a big leg up, a great starting place, but it is not a final place to stand still.
8.
From History: Spirituality is exploration.
When publicly discussing spirituality, distinguish thought of the material world, what we directly experience, from the spiritual interpretations beyond it. Organize each spiritual idea into agnostic, nontheistic, and theistic.
9.
The empiricist stands between dogma and paralysis—open to revision, grounded in evidence.
10.
Agnosticism is not confusion. It is a way of managing belief under uncertainty. No one believes everything and an agnostic view is the best place to evaluate it. So don’t hurry to take a position on anything.
Done. Refresh for another set.
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