Philosophy

anyone else fw flat Earth theory?

i don't think there's any merit to it but it's a vibe

flat earthism isn’t interesting as a theory, but as a stance. it’s a case study in nonlinear epistemic drift, where denialism becomes a kind of epistemic rebellion. what matters isn’t the content but the form of belief: radical deviation, self-selected isolation, and the refusal to outsource truth to institutions.

instead of mocking that impulse, what if we harnessed it? imagine incubating epistemic dissidents (cells of radically divergent thinkers) and funding their inquiries. not to confirm what we know, but to explore what our paradigms suppress. we’ve confined knowledge making to academia vs internet chaos. it’s time for deliberate epistemic pluralism

structured heterodoxy, not blind consensus.

DeSci solves this 

I think there's probably more interesting things to fund tho like Egyptology