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How Philosophers Think
Philosophers are the best thinkers I know, and their tactics can help us all.
Here are my favorite ones:
1. Be an intellectual boxer: Understand ideas by making them battle with each other. Create characters in your mind and make them debate each other.
How Philosophers Think...
@david_perell on Twitter
Jung's approach to vetting gnosis is a best-practice:
If you feel like you've had profound, important insights in a neuroplastic state, test that intuition by pitching them to epistemically rigorous people.
Jung used academia for this, but rationalists & dharma nerds work, too.
Tweets From George
@georgejrjrjr on Twitter
Rule of thumb: if memorizing something will likely save me five minutes in the future, into the spaced repetion system it goes. The expected lifetime review time is less than five minutes, i.e., it takes < 5 minutes to learn something... forever.
Tweets from Michael Nielsen
@michael_nielsen on Twitter
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
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