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I've noticed that some people care deeply about the truth, but come up with batshit crazy statements. And I've caught myself rationa...
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Hmmm. [The comments below include a prime example of someone claiming they're interested in truth but just want higher standard, where...
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Where Americans think Ukraine is These are the guesses of 2066 Americans as to where Ukraine is. Only 1 in 6 were correct. Presumably the...
That says a lot actually about the nature of modern science today that our theories and the process has not lead us from information to wisdom. One of the biggest mistakes that I see intelligent people making is to stop being hungry for better theories. The science journalism is not serving our needs in this regard; we can do much, much better.
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... and what this means is that we must systematically map out the debates of science. There is no shortcut to wisdom whereby we can simplistically filter out all of the arguments we disagree with.
Cue Duran Duran's song Too Much Information. 😃
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