BacktoCricaddict Posted June 28 Posted June 28 https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan-s-rules-for-bullshit-busting-and-critical-thinking Carl Sagan’s rules for critical thinking offer cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood. Good stuff. Prakat and Mariyam 2
Prakat Posted June 28 Posted June 28 The last ten years have seen the largest degradation in the acquisition as well as application of critical thinking skills since the enlightenment. It started will people filling their precious passive thinking time with futzing on social media and is now at a point when they are salivating at the thought of putting their brains in a jar to enable agentic AI to takeover much of the active part of their days. It has become a rarity to find anyone in the general public who has read a single book in a year. BacktoCricaddict and Mariyam 2
BacktoCricaddict Posted June 29 Author Posted June 29 (edited) 14 hours ago, Prakat said: The last ten years have seen the largest degradation in the acquisition as well as application of critical thinking skills since the enlightenment. It started will people filling their precious passive thinking time with futzing on social media and is now at a point when they are salivating at the thought of putting their brains in a jar to enable agentic AI to takeover much of the active part of their days. It has become a rarity to find anyone in the general public who has read a single book in a year. In my opinion, what is most lacking in people is humility to ask "what if this is not true? what if I am wrong? Let me get more information/data and context before framing this in my mind based." Call it critical-thinking or 2nd-level thinking, but in the end it is simply the shedding of one's hubris enough to question one's own beliefs and convictions. Edited June 29 by BacktoCricaddict Prakat 1
coffee_rules Posted June 29 Posted June 29 Good read. A great cure for insomnia. j/k Some of his skepticism is logical, but he is said to be all Atheists’ favorite Atheist. He has been often misunderstood. My favorite is he trying to explain Cosmology through Vedanta. Carefully calls this philosophy of Hindu thought as Hindu culture. He starts with quoting the translation of Nasadiya sukta from Rigveda. Lord 1
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