[B]ecoming more rational, or not feeling the emotions of social slights, is not part of the human race... not with our current biology. There is no s… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not predisposed to respect humble people, those who try to suspend judgement. Now contemplate epistemic humility. Think of someone heavily introspective, tortured by the awareness of his own ignorance. He lacks the courage of the idiot, yet has the rare guts to say "I don't know." He does not mind looking like a fool or, worse, an ignoramus. He hesitates, he will not commit, and he agonizes over the consequences of being wrong. He introspects, introspects, and introspects until he reaches physical and nervous exhaustion.

This does not necessarily mean he lacks confidence, only that he holds his own knowledge to be suspect. I will call such a person an epistemocrat; the province where the laws are structured with this kind of human fallibility in mind I will can an epistemocracy."

The chief ethical rule is the following: Thou shalt not have antifragility at the expense of the fragility of others.

We didn't break the mafia by reasoning w/its members. Remember: you'll never break special intrsts, lobbies, journalistic monoculturists & academic rent seekers by convincing them, but by exposing them, working on their customers. Accountability, put Skin in their game.