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Maintaining and refining warranted knowledge in Science generally serves human thriving. Reliable predictive tools help reduce human suffering. This concerns maintaining knowledge, not approval of every possible use.

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  1. Condition Defeasibly affirmed

    Maintaining and refining warranted knowledge in Science generally serves human thriving. Reliable predictive tools help reduce human suffering. This concerns maintaining knowledge, not approval of every possible use.

    Requires: Human suffering is bad; human thriving is good, Reliable predictive tools reduce human suffering, and The scientific method reliably produces predictive tools.

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    1. ⬢ Root axiom Affirmed

      “Human suffering is bad; human thriving is good.” — the one commitment we've agreed not to reopen view

      this is an attestation.

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      TRUE

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    2. Condition Affirmed

      Reliable predictive tools reduce human suffering.

      this is an attestation.

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      TRUE

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    3. Condition Affirmed

      The scientific method reliably produces predictive tools.

      this is an attestation.

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      TRUE

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Why maintain this knowledge?

Default justification from Science. Defeasibly affirmed.

Maintaining and refining warranted knowledge in Science generally serves human thriving. Reliable predictive tools help reduce human suffering. This concerns maintaining knowledge, not approval of every possible use.

How this justification applies

This is a provisional reason for maintaining and refining knowledge, not a guarantee that every use is good. Applicability by default is not a premise proving the finding.

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