Author: Jo
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How to deal with intellectually dishonest people
John Stuart Mill once said, “He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as…
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What is steelmanning?
Aristotle once said, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” To me, this is what intellectual honesty primarily consists of. Too often, people get stuck in their own beliefs and are totally incapable of even articulating an opponent’s point of view. Of course, this…
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Why start a blog?
Somebody once said, “I write to discover what I think.” A cursory DuckDuckGo search did not yield the source of this quote, but it really does encapsulate the main reason why I’ve decided to launch a blog. For a while now, I have been considering the idea of launching a podcast, and although that is…
