The Amazing Things & Ideas - Focus on ideas, not people
A person is not just a set of ideas. Their personality definitely is a result of the ideas they have. But people are much deeper than their personalities. They are idea-generators. A person is not inherently evil. It is the evil ideas they hold in their mind that cause us to say so. Some people can be hard to reason with. Force and dogma can blind a person to better ideas. But minds are malleable. While criticizing, focus on specific ideas, not people. An Ad Hominem argument is not going to help improve the ideas someone holds in their mind. It will usually arouse indignation from the person being criticized. Labelling people also inclines you to dismiss their ideas. Which hampers the growth of knowledge. Remember, people are not their ideas. They can change their mind. Paul Graham’s Hierarchy of Disagreement relates to this idea of how to disagree well. The Amazing Things & Ideas List1. Book I’m readingThe Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 2. A long awaited conversationNaval Ravikant interviews David Deutsch.
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From relativist to fallibilist
Sunday, February 5, 2023
At one point doesn't everything seem relative? What even is truth if not that which is true relative to the person?
To be wrong is to be free
Sunday, January 29, 2023
Oh, the beauty of being wrong...
Is "Studies show..." the new "The Bible says..."?
Sunday, January 22, 2023
Our knowledge of the world is not certain. People are fallible. We make errors. But this is not a depressing view of us cosmically significant entities.
079 The War Against Nature
Friday, January 20, 2023
Nature (eventually) weeds out bad ideas.
078 The one who changes the world
Sunday, January 8, 2023
+ Chasing dreams, denying the inevitable, podcasts, and psychological innocence
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