whygetfat on Nostr: Dr. Madhava Setty: "Another big puzzle that we encounter is what do you do when ...
Dr. Madhava Setty: "Another big puzzle that we encounter is what do you do when experts disagree? Right? I don't know. I've talked a lot about this, but that's the position that we're all in, where we have experts on one side saying one thing, and experts on the other side saying the other thing. How do you, as a non-expert, decide which one is right? If you were being truly honest you would have to say, 'I don't know. I don't know who's right.'
"But why is one side asking to debate and the other side saying, 'No, we don't want to have a debate.' Why is one side wanting to engage, but the other side is saying, 'No, that would be dangerous, because you might get the wrong idea.'
"I mean these are like really big clues, not to who's right or wrong, but what is fundamentally happening here. Because you don't know, as a non-expert, who is right. So your choice to go with one or the other is based on what? What? It's based on your conditioning. And what is that based on? There's no hard place to say, 'Well, this is how I know it's true.' You're just going on thought forms and biases. And if you really want to get to the bottom of things, you have to address your biases first.
"Why do you expect that an industry that has paid out billions of dollars in fines for harms done, why do you trust them now to do the right thing? I'm not saying you're wrong or right. I'm just saying do you realize that that's the case? You have to avail yourself of all the information possible before choosing. So for non-experts, this is where you have to go. But if you don't want to do that, go ahead and trust whoever you want to. I'm not saying that you shouldn't do this or shouldn't do that. But understand why you're making that decision before you make the decision. And stop telling me that you're being objective, because you're not."
Dr. Madhava Setty with Dr. Alexis Cowan @ 1:05:56–01:07:58 https://youtu.be/KzvBjI6fYS8&t=3956
"But why is one side asking to debate and the other side saying, 'No, we don't want to have a debate.' Why is one side wanting to engage, but the other side is saying, 'No, that would be dangerous, because you might get the wrong idea.'
"I mean these are like really big clues, not to who's right or wrong, but what is fundamentally happening here. Because you don't know, as a non-expert, who is right. So your choice to go with one or the other is based on what? What? It's based on your conditioning. And what is that based on? There's no hard place to say, 'Well, this is how I know it's true.' You're just going on thought forms and biases. And if you really want to get to the bottom of things, you have to address your biases first.
"Why do you expect that an industry that has paid out billions of dollars in fines for harms done, why do you trust them now to do the right thing? I'm not saying you're wrong or right. I'm just saying do you realize that that's the case? You have to avail yourself of all the information possible before choosing. So for non-experts, this is where you have to go. But if you don't want to do that, go ahead and trust whoever you want to. I'm not saying that you shouldn't do this or shouldn't do that. But understand why you're making that decision before you make the decision. And stop telling me that you're being objective, because you're not."
Dr. Madhava Setty with Dr. Alexis Cowan @ 1:05:56–01:07:58 https://youtu.be/KzvBjI6fYS8&t=3956