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.
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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What are your thoughts about this?
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I’m also working on this, in my own way. I’ve noticed that having conversations with people about what they find meaningful, and offering reflections about how they are constructing that meaning, is incredibly and naturally engaging in a way that people seem hungry for.
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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!