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Both sides often speak as though they are obviously right. The fact that there are millions of people on each side suggests the situation is probably more complicated than that.
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Posted my opening salvo in a dialogue with @jon_stokes about whether the line between human and machine is blurring. @pairagraph pairagraph.com/dialogue/9bbf…
Fantastic no more juvenile straw man crap, the real issues 👍
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I learned so much talking @EconTalker about his amazing new book, Wild Problems, Jewish thought, Dorian Gray, aspiration, parenting, regret, forgiveness, uncertainty, humility, mindfulness, secularism, and the limits of Economics. Self-recommending! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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“Education [is] not intended to make people comfortable, it is meant to make them think. Universities should provide conditions within which hard thought, and therefore strong disagreement, independent judgment, and questioning of stubborn assumptions, can flourish." Hannah Gray
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“I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.” –Charlie Munger
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Those who ask great questions are shovels in human form who are most likely to find treasures in form of insights.
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In a Rosh Hashanah sermon from 1961, my grandfather wrote: "The eminent Harvard professor, the late George Foot Moore, once said that the difference between philosophy and religion is that religion does something about it." I can't find a published source, but I love it.
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A depressing amount of online argumentation (if you can call it that) consists in merely pointing out an inconsistency, or apparent inconsistency, in an opponent’s position. Nothing per se wrong with that, but it should be the beginning of a rational discussion, not the end of it
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The Shalem College philosophy of learning is that reading is about so much more than the transferring of ideas or insights. Equally if not more about the transformation of the reader.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. —Haruki Murakami
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Even if I were a hedonist I’d want to spend my life thinking and teaching. The life of the mind beats materialism at its own game.
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Weirdo Subcultures Are No Longer Producing Great Art, @benlandautaylor and @olivertraldi pairagraph.com/dialogue/ccb4…
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Acknowledgment: this thread revises and expands a portion of an exchange about “The State of the Modern American University” on @pairagraph, Sept. 2020 pairagraph.com/dialogue/a4dd…
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