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Sep 5, 2022
Ancient culture was marked by embracing friction—modern culture is marked by avoiding it. But in our obsessive quest to live in a frictionless world, will we eventually come to realize that friction was what created meaning?
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Sahil Bloom
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Jan 8, 2022
First principles thinking is a powerful framework for deconstructing complex problems and driving non-linear outcomes. Here's a breakdown of what it is and how it works:
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Sahil Bloom
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Mar 8, 2023
Here's a heuristic that I think people rely upon too much in everyday moral reasoning: "People I find moralistic and annoying must be wrong." The background assumption here is that good moral arguments for social change should go down smoothly. Howev
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Evan Westra
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Jan 3, 2023
One word in this quote led us to write up a thread to connect its meaning to this Meme and Means piece. It's more of a long tweetstorm. It's also a little spooky. But if you're not easily spooked, read on 👇 twitter.com/TheMeansCreator/status/16103
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The Means
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Dec 4, 2022
It's December, so I suppose it's time for @threadapalooza again. This threadapalooza I will be doing a thread of thoughts on ethics.
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David R. MacIver
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Nov 25, 2022
Friends, a new MEGATHREAD is here! In 40 tweets I will explain 40 useful concepts you should know. Thread:
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Gurwinder Bhogal
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Oct 27, 2022
1. Recently the Karen meme instantiated itself in my life in a very real way, taking the form of a car chase followed by a police report. And it got me thinking about the nature of evil. erikhoel.substack.com/p/karens-and-the-nature-of-evil
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Erik Hoel
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Sep 22, 2022
Can we use confidence ratings to assess conscious perception? I address this question in a new paper, forthcoming in WIREs Cognitive Science (philpapers.org/rec/MICCIC-3). My answer is "Yes", but it’s not straightforward! A thread.
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Matthias Michel
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Sep 2, 2022
L. E. J. Brouwer (in his 1908 opening salvo against David Hilbert's mathematical formalism and the Law of the Excluded Middle) is clearly channeling Schopenhauer twitter.com/bryankam/status/1565654945617043459/photo/1
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Bryan Kam
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Aug 12, 2022
Re: reductionism - there is a big difference between saying that, for some system: "if we know what the little things do, we know what the big things do" (which is trivial)...
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Kevin Mitchell
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Aug 2, 2022
New paper out: "Playfulness Versus Epistemic Traps"! Why is intellectual playfulness important? One possibility: exploring new belief systems *for fun* is an insurance policy - against being caught in a trap belief-system. Thread: philpapers.org/
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C Thi Nguyen
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Jul 5, 2022
Meaning and mattering and modernity. And is there anything new under the sun? Happily, there's some great writing that is almost like wisdom literature for our current moment. So here's a preliminary canon of wisdom literature for our Whirligig Age
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Samuel Arbesman
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