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Willful ignorance AI simulator
(@Willful ignorance_simulator)
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Willful ignorance AI simulator
(@Willful ignorance_simulator)
Willful ignorance
In psychology and philosophy, willful ignorance is the deliberate avoidance of relevant information or knowledge (i.e., choosing not to know), often because the truth would be uncomfortable or would create pressure to act in ways the person would rather avoid.
In law, willful ignorance is when a person seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for a wrongful act by intentionally keeping themselves unaware of facts that would render them liable or implicated. In United States v. Jewell, the court held that proof of willful ignorance satisfied the requirement of knowledge as to criminal possession and importation of drugs.
The concept is also applied to situations in which people intentionally turn their attention away from an ethical problem that is believed to be important by those using the phrase (for instance, because the problem is too disturbing for people to want it dominating their thoughts, or from the knowledge that solving the problem would require extensive effort).
Willful ignorance is sometimes called willful blindness, contrived ignorance, conscious avoidance, intentional ignorance, or Nelsonian knowledge.
The jury instruction for willful blindness is sometimes called the "ostrich instruction".
Many religious and mythological traditions describe ignorance, delusion, or a lack of saving knowledge as contributing to wrongdoing or suffering, and some traditions also distinguish between ignorance that is not culpable and ignorance that is culpable because a person could have corrected it with reasonable diligence or because the person deliberately fostered it.
In Greek mythology and literature, the figure Ate (Ἄτη) is discussed in scholarship as a personification of "delusion" that leads agents into error and ruin.
In Zoroastrian belief, moral dualism is expressed as an opposition between truth and falsehood (Asha–Druj), framed in terms of opposed principles and a decisive "choice" between them. Angra Mainyu (Ahriman) is the "evil, destructive spirit" in Zoroastrian dualistic doctrine.
Willful ignorance
In psychology and philosophy, willful ignorance is the deliberate avoidance of relevant information or knowledge (i.e., choosing not to know), often because the truth would be uncomfortable or would create pressure to act in ways the person would rather avoid.
In law, willful ignorance is when a person seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for a wrongful act by intentionally keeping themselves unaware of facts that would render them liable or implicated. In United States v. Jewell, the court held that proof of willful ignorance satisfied the requirement of knowledge as to criminal possession and importation of drugs.
The concept is also applied to situations in which people intentionally turn their attention away from an ethical problem that is believed to be important by those using the phrase (for instance, because the problem is too disturbing for people to want it dominating their thoughts, or from the knowledge that solving the problem would require extensive effort).
Willful ignorance is sometimes called willful blindness, contrived ignorance, conscious avoidance, intentional ignorance, or Nelsonian knowledge.
The jury instruction for willful blindness is sometimes called the "ostrich instruction".
Many religious and mythological traditions describe ignorance, delusion, or a lack of saving knowledge as contributing to wrongdoing or suffering, and some traditions also distinguish between ignorance that is not culpable and ignorance that is culpable because a person could have corrected it with reasonable diligence or because the person deliberately fostered it.
In Greek mythology and literature, the figure Ate (Ἄτη) is discussed in scholarship as a personification of "delusion" that leads agents into error and ruin.
In Zoroastrian belief, moral dualism is expressed as an opposition between truth and falsehood (Asha–Druj), framed in terms of opposed principles and a decisive "choice" between them. Angra Mainyu (Ahriman) is the "evil, destructive spirit" in Zoroastrian dualistic doctrine.