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My long overdue reply to @JoshHochschild about whether AI is blurring the lines between humans and machines. pairagraph.com/dialogue/9bbf…
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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
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I made my opening comment in the great crank debate with @ben_golub
@AgnesCallard @pairagraph
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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!
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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.
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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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Acknowledgment: this thread revises and expands a portion of an exchange about “The State of the Modern American University” on @pairagraph, Sept. 2020
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"In my view, the ultimate task of history is moralistic—not narrating the past as it happened, but telling good stories that can inspire culture to flourish into the future."
Interesting piece, by @ZoharAtkins !
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The best instrumental reason to read Great Books is not that it will make you wiser or more knowledgable but that it give you personality.
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I think good conversations are collaborative and that good debate is collaborative as well. But not all debate is a joint search. Much is infotainment. My favorite collaborative debate pod is Minds Almost Meeting. @robinhanson and @AgnesCallard
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Counter-intuitively, debate requires shared moral and intellectual foundations around what is good and true, much as boxing has rules that make it a sport rather than a mere beating.
Twitter discourse lacks that, which is why it’s simultaneously so vicious and pointless.
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There are many interview podcasts, not enough debate podcasts
Debates are a better way of understanding the core tensions of any given issue
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I turned the Enlightenment 2.0 idea that I’ve been playing with into a more elaborate list and taxonomy:
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