Tag: critical thinking
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# How to become wiser ## Seeking perspective What’s another way to look at this? What assumptions am I making right now? How would an objective observer describe what happened? Who is this benefitting and who is it hurting? What would...
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Focused agency >>> dispersed curiosity When intelligence is free, pay up in imagination Cultivate taste like art curators and fashion designers ChatGPT is not a person, but it is your acquaintance To know if AI works, don’t read news—try it...
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Science, proceeding on skepticism, not certainty, is arguably the most successful human activity of all time.
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The translation of luminous experience and human connection to "divine" causality is unworthy of life's real beauty, power and meaning. Why make up superstitious drivel to explain beautiful consciousness when beauty and humanity are so spectacular...
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.
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Thinking is disbelieving
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Science is about curiosity. It’s about rigor. It’s about doubting yourself. It’s about doubting your peers. It’s about applying a strict methodology to problem solving, to arrive at results. That’s the soul of science. That’s what...
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Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
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At this point, the wiser folks will put away their calculator and return to their order of magnitude estimate in their head, their slide rule, and their abacus as needed. The others will be left to wonder why getting a correct value pays less than...
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We evolved to communicate, to speak and to listen, and acquire verbal and auditory skill relatively easily. There is no guaranty that we learn to read and write, but somehow our brains have figured out how to reconfigure themselves into reading and...
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Veritas...is the reason we exist, to seek the truth. Over time, truth is revealed; it needs to be tested on the anvil of competing ideas. If you really seek the truth, you must engage with those who think differently than you. Even more importantly,...
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We should not 'move fast and break things' ! Instead we should use the Scientific Method: •Thoughtful deliberation and foresight •Hypothesis generation • Rigorous, careful and controlled testing •Update based on empirical data (with...
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I know that I know nothing. This is the first step we all must take in order to learn something.
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Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Despite our best efforts, some things we believe are probably wrong. We certainly are very keen on recognizing the errors of past times and other nations. Why should our nation, why should our time, be different? If there are things that we believe,...
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled.
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No amount of belief makes something a fact.
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What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
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What sounds good isn’t usually what works
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Don't believe everything you think.
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Demonstrate a curiosity to learn more information. Openly admit when you don’t know something, know and operate within your limits. Break down complex problems and cut straight to a solution. Have an acute awareness of your own thought...
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If science is a ‘commitment to truth’ shall we cite all the historical non-truths perpetuated by scientists? Of course not. It’s not science vs Philosophy ... It’s Science + Philosophy. Elevate your thinking and consciousness. When you...
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It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well. And if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts
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There is a yawning gap between information and understanding unknown
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One should use data the way a drunk uses a lamp post: For support, but NOT for illumination.
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[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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0. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything. 0. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light. 0. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed. 0. When you meet with...
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