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The virtues and vices of shark curiosity

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In philosophy, you spend years learning how to attack arguments. If you keep doing philosophy, you'll attack others and they'll attack you in what feels like a kind of constant epistemic trial by fire. It's not always fun, but it does seem to make people better at arguing. Sometimes people

In philosophy, you spend years learning how to attack arguments. If you keep doing philosophy, you'll attack others and they'll attack you in what feels like a kind of constant epistemic trial by fire. It's not always fun, but it does seem to make people better at arguing. Sometimes people ask how they can hone these skills. The least useful answer to this is some variant of "sorry, you just have be good at it". The degree to which argumentative skill is an innate talent is unclear. Even if most of those who end up in fields like philosophy are often innately good at it, this could just be an

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