What to safeguard:
- Empirical testing and peer reviews
- Checks and balances in power systems
- Fact-checking
- Adversarial proceedings
- Freedom of inquiry and open debate
How to safeguard:
- Acknowledge fallibility
- Show work (don't rely on authority)
- Avoid politicization
Why we fail:
- Rather win versus learn
- Depend only on our intuitions
- Distrust rationality
- Moral positions are fervently held beliefs and not empirical hypotheses