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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them; and the pleasure of waking up is so much more beautiful than that of dreaming, that it must never be desired to have the eyes closed.

— René Descartes, Discourse on the Method (1637)
16h ago

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

1w ago

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

1w ago
oneusefulthing.org
Choosing to Stay Human

We are trained to read well-crafted sentences and intellectual sounding texts as the result of effortful human work and thus pay attention to these AI written comments when we see them. But there is often no human meaning there, these posts are just meaning-shaped attention vampires that take mental effort to decode and give you no equivalent understanding in return.

3w ago
longreads.com
The Wrong Stalker

They didn't mention that they hadn't checked the authenticity of the emails from Shawn provided by Bridget. They were relying solely on the screenshots. And there is no evidence that they had looked into Bridget's past.

3w ago
honest-broker.com
Socrates vs. the Venture Capitalist

If we abandon introspection and critical thinking, we descend to an animal life—and that is unworthy of us as human beings.

1mo ago
noahpinion.blog
Scoring the Jensen-Dwarkesh debate

It's all too easy to slip into doing a softball puff piece — fawning all over your guests and treating them like gurus dispensing wisdom from a mountain. This is an even easier trap for someone like Dwarkesh, who is very young and who is primarily known for interviewing people instead of for dispensing his own thoughts. So it's extremely impressive that he consistently avoids this trap — he always manages to challenge and provoke his subjects, rather than just letting them spout their usual talking points.

1mo ago
whyisthisinteresting
The Monday Media Diet with Molly Jensen

I think with as quickly as news breaks, and as short as everyones attention span is, we have never been more inundated with information, misinformation and content. Discernment is more important than its ever been.

1mo ago

The chief danger of our age is that all mankind should be sunk in a depression of the same kind, all held in the same mold by the oppressiveness of a system of thought in which there is neither criticism of life nor xiety about truth.

2mo ago

The purpose of an open mind, like an open mouth, is to close it on something solid.

2mo ago

The true function of philosophy is not to provide final answers, but to keep alive in us the sense of wonder at the world and our place in it.

2mo ago
3quarksdaily.com
Lessons from Ethics Bowling

It seems to me then, that a lot of supposed ethical issues lose a lot of their heat once you get your facts straight.

2mo ago

The purpose of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it on something solid.

3mo ago

The chief wonder of education is that it does not destroy the mind of the pupil at all. When one considers the usual methods of teaching, this is indeed extraordinary. Yet it does happen, and I should say that in nine cases out of ten it happens by accident.

3mo ago

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunnings achievements of science. The divorce of the two produces politicians without ideas and scientists without conscience.

3mo ago

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

3mo ago

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

3mo ago

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