#metaphysical #rationality #epistemology #information # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Related - [[Philosophy/Rationality/The danger of consuming audio & visual Epistemically unstable information]] - [[Philosophy/Epistemology/The value of metaphysical statements]] - [[Philosophy/Epistemology/It is more efficient to know what you do not know than knowing what you know]] - [[Philosophy/Rationality/Scientific discovery in the real world]] - [[Poetry and science]] # Nonscientific information is merely harmful Everything that does not lie in the scientific and [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Falsifiability|falsifiable]] realm is merely harmful because of standing on weak epistemic shoulders. The quantity of [[Information|information]] generated is highly growing in a nonlinear fashion, kind of following the [[Second law of thermodynamics]], and if you consume all this information without filter, you are intellectually dead. So one ought to use heuristics to filter [[Noise|noise]] from [[Signal]] and consuming more scientific information than metaphysical is one of those. Probably [[Philosophy/Rationality/Models/Lindy Effect|Lindy-proof]] metaphysical information is safer. ## In [[Health]] Seek detractors rather than confirmation. # External links