(2017-11-27) Zvim You Have The Right To Think

Zvi Mowshowitz: You Have the Right to Think. Written partly as a response to (Robin Hanson): Why be Contrarian, responding to the book Inadequate Equilibria by Eliezer Yudkowsky.

• (2017-11-25) Hanson Why Be Contrarian

We the people, in order to accomplish something, do declare:
You have the right to think.
You have the right to disagree with people where your model of the world disagrees.

You do not need a ‘disagreement license,’ of any kind, implied or actual, to do any of this disagreeing. To the extent that you think you need one, I hereby grant one to you. I also grant a ‘hero license‘, and a license license to allow you to grant yourself additional such licenses if you are asked to produce one.

You have the right to be responsible with these rights and not overuse them, realizing that disagreements should be the exception and not the rule.

Oh, and by right? I meant duty.