If you encourage the procedural, gamified and contrarianist version that "devil's advocate" often becomes, and don't pay attention to preparation, substance and framework (like these platforms), you don't get the critical thinking you want in the world but "let's make shit up."
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Mindless and heavily-procedural contrarianism is a plague on substantive debate and critical thinking. Lemme come up with a clever, contrarian point is too-heavily prized and it usually *displaces* the kind of debate one needs. I saw it so much this pandemic.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Tom Clarke
Yeah. The point was on what it really takes to have deep, substantive critical thinking and challenge, and what devolves into games that don't. Again: I pay people way above industry rates out of my own pocket to take me down as substantively as they can.https://twitter.com/tomeclarke/status/1383395983984259076?s=20 …
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one issue here is that the concepts of the "devil's advocate", "critical thinking", and "bloviating" are regularly (and of course wrongly) conflated. So while it's explained in the full thread, it's easy to see the initial tweet as exactly the opposite of the thread's intent.
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Yeah the platform itself isn't conducive to the kind of thinking/debate we need, which was part of the point of the thread.
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