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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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.2 replies 5 retweets 36 likesShow this thread -
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!8 replies 16 retweets 62 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @Meaningness
What about not aiming for fashionability but integrity?
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Replying to @Meaningness @Plinz
how frequently do fashionable things also have high integrity?
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Replying to @danlistensto @Plinz
Collectively, we have some choice about this. Intellectual fashions are not ordained by God, nor are they random catastrophes.
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Replying to @Meaningness @Plinz
I can't find a reason to disagree with that but I also can't reconcile that with examples from our (quite recent) past, such as lobotomy being fashionable 40s-50s, or your own pet peeve example nutrition "science"https://meaningness.com/nutrition
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My question, I suppose, is "what about these dis-integral ideas makes them fashionable and how can we use it for actually good ideas?"
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Excellent question! Studying intellectual history, to get a sense of why ideas catch on, should help (although it’s not sufficient by itself)
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