Pomo replaced systematic cognition as the badge of high academic achievement, because—done well—it’s more difficult, and it evades the foundational crisis in rationality.
Disastrously, though, it’s useless for problem-solving; its only value is personal advertisement.
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Let’s make fluid, meta-systematic thinking the new fashionable IQ signaling device! It's even more difficult than pomo, AND it accurately addresses practical problems!Show this thread -
We can do this. Intellectual fashions are not ordained by God, or random catastrophes.
Perverse institutional incentives, and broad social changes, do play a role...
But so does individual choice, and collective resistance to idiocy. We have agency to make change.Show this thread
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Wow, enjoy!
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I hope to read your book soon...
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Thank you for your interest! Do you mean the eggplant book? I hope it will be ready soon-ish! Unfortunately it’s delayed because I’ve spent the past couple months taking care of my momhttps://meaningness.com/metablog/post-apocalyptic-health-care …
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I thought the change was for the purpose of keeping undesirables out.
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Systematic thinking went out of fashion as a badge of membership in the cognitive elite, back in the 1980s, partly because it’s rigid and brittle.