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Galaxy brain resistance
One important property for a style of thinking and argumentation to have is what I call galaxy brain resistance: how difficult is it to abuse that style of thinking to argue for pretty much whatever you want - something that you already decided elsewhere for other reasons? The spirit here is similar to falsifiability in science: if your arguments can justify anything, then your arguments imply nothing. It's easiest to motivate the need to think about galaxy brain resistance by looking at what happens in its absence. You've probably heard many cases of people saying things like this: We are building a new ... (full story)
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