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 thread
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!
I am already personally selecting people semi-consciously on these criteria. Talking with them is such a relief/so calming compared to everyone else.
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Right? Both parties genuinely looking for a different POV leads to the best convos. Collaboration²
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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