A lot of people responding that you haven't read the article, without acknowledging that this article hand-waves this issues towards the end in the "critical mass of Luciphers" section. So I think it's a fair criticism to make. Probably an accumulating bias towards retaliation (in the event of continued experienced betrayal) would be a reasonable edition.

> It's entirely possible that this train currently running over me is an illusion. There is no objective proof it's really happening

It's basically just a stupid thing for people like lex Fridman to wax eloquent about in podcasts. No one actually can or does live their life as if it might be true

We have to go back Kate

Despite the negative press cofete

I really hope you're 12-14 years old and not a fully-realized product of the American education system.

"The guy was a real jerk"

For real. Can we stop sounding like five year olds, and not call people like Putin, bin Salman, or abusive law enforcement operators asshats?

Can't help but think of Peter Griffin's "Oh my god who the hell cares" with stuff like this.

That still falls under empiricism, since it's based on observation. Yes we use tools to augment our perception, but the knowledge isn't generated by thinking/deducing. That's the difference.