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👏 for this clever microworld on fluid systematicity. Was skeptical, then the essay addressed exactly my objections.

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‽ “A first lesson in meta-rationality”: in a STEM curriculum for cognitive 4→5 transition. meaningness.com/metablog/bonga

extremely skeptical of this model when it seems to exist to justify STEM primacy as path to salvation.

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I don’t think it does; I think it observes that people often reach rationality through STEM, expresses a longing for other paths.

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I think that there’s a lots of implicit bias and citation needed on that observation.

The observation that people often reach rationality through STEM? Does the discussion actually rest on that in any important way?

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