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 6 retweets 37 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 63 likesShow this thread -
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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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Collectively, we have some choice about this. Intellectual fashions are not ordained by God, nor are they random catastrophes.
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I think that due to social pressures, it is more rational to converge to low-integrity fashions (unless one's highest goal is indeed status maximization for the largest public audience, in which case fashionability and integrity are the same thing).
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