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.
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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 threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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What about not aiming for fashionability but integrity?
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Why not both?
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Any thoughts on the best way to present the fluid mode that might appear attractive, captivating, intriguing so that it could become fashionable?
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Well, that’s my project, overall, and I’m doing the best I can in the small fraction of my time available… I expect many other approaches are possible, and hope others will pursue them!
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here, you might find these useful (cc
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oh god that’s magnificent “blackmails Roko’s Basilisk” was my favorite
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I suggest something in the way of a large and fancy hat.
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Totally!
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Systems thinking not as absolutely authority, but as a clarifying perspective.
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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.
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!