Fake thinking and real thinking - Joe Carlsmith

When the line pulls at your hand.

Fake thinking and real thinking - Joe Carlsmith Fake thinking and real thinking Contents hide 1. Introduction 2. Caveats 3. Examples 3.1 AI 3.2 Philosophy 3.3 Competitive debate 3.4 Everyday life 3.5 Lewis on the living God 4. Why does this matter? 4.1 Spiritual stuff 4.2 The telos of thinking 5. How do we do real thinking? 5.1 Going slow 5.2 Following curiosity and aliveness 5.3 Staying in tune with your “why” 5.4 Tethering your concepts 5.5 Arguments are lenses on the world 5.6 Helplessness about the truth 5.7 Just actually imagining different ways the world could be 5.8 Being wrong/right in

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