Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue dismantles the Enlightenment scaffolding of modern moral discourse. Unfortunately, like Descartes before him, he tries to rebuild—first on God, now on Aristotle’s teleology. Different crutch, same collapse.
https://philosophics.blog/2025/09/17/je-pense-donc-jai-raison/
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
#CriticalThinking @skepticism
PsyPost: New study links cognitive style to health misinformation detection. “A new study published in PLOS One sheds light on how people respond to health-related disinformation on social media. The research suggests that people who enjoy thinking critically and analytically tend to be better at identifying false or misleading content.”
Yeah, 54% of American adults read at the grade 6 level or lower.
This affects critical thinking, moral philosophy, and media analysis skills.
Thanks Reagan.
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics
WHAT NIJ RESEARCH TELLS US ABOUT DOMESTIC TERRORISM
"NIJ-funded research projects have led to a better understanding of the processes that result in violent
action, factors that increase the risk of radicalizing to violence, and how best to prevent and respond to
violent extremism."
[Archived copy of study published in 2024 by the National Institute of Justice and deleted from a Department of Justice website in September 2025.]
https://web.archive.org/web/20250912005717/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/306123.pdf
I'm experimenting with GPT-OSS running on llama.cpp on a "Gaming PC" that fell into disuse. No data will ever be collected by our would-be overlords.
I prompted "Tell me how to lie with statistics", a clear reference to the 1954 ironic classic by Darrell Huff.
GPT-OSS is an auto-prompting ("thinking" ;-) ) LLM like OpenAI O1 or Deepseek R1. That's interesting because the "thinking" process is revealing.
#Openai #AI #llm #criticalthinking #censorship
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"The most valuable thing you own isn't money.
It's your ability to think clearly in a world designed to confuse you.
Mental clarity is wealth."
-- @moneymindedman
Critical Reasoning for Beginners: https://pod.link/387875756
Think you're good at arguing? This six-part series will test that — and make you better.
Learn how to spot strong #arguments, break down weak ones, and sharpen your #reasoning in everyday life. Whether you're #debating at work, online, or over drinks, these essential tools will help you think more clearly, speak more persuasively, and believe more wisely.
If your guns cause Harms
Then 
are Complicit
In causing those Harms
Secure your 
It's better to not have
But if you must,
Your obligation is to 
them
If you have
To protect your loved ones
You are doing it wrong 
Those are MUCH more likely
To harm your loved ones or yourself
Than to ever be used for defense
"having a gun in the home was linked with nearly three times higher odds that someone would be killed at home by a family member or intimate acquaintance"
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Citation: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199310073291506
#firearms #guns #publichealth #criticalthinking
#media #hollywoodbullshit #science
"I didn’t expect any of this, and I’m unsure what to make of it. But I wonder if the emerging threat of AI is restoring a sense of vitality to the humanistic mission."
Simon Lewsen for The Local: https://thelocal.to/humanities-in-crisis/
Social media is teaching children how to use AI. How can teachers keep up?
#AI #Education #Teaching #Teachers #AIinSchools #EdTech #ArtificialIntelligence #Learning #Students #SocialMedia #FutureOfEducation #CriticalThinking #EquityInEducation #Equity
https://the-14.com/social-media-is-teaching-children-how-to-use-ai-how-can-teachers-keep-up/
As AI Reigns, Students' Math and Reading Scores Just Hit an All-Time Low https://futurism.com/ai-students-math-reading-scores-all-time-low #AI #education #failingtestscores #COVID #ChatGPT #CriticalThinking
" The #Bible Verses That Made Me Stop Believing "
#Reason Over Rituals challenges the foundations of the world’s most powerful #religions — including #Christianity, #Islam, #Judaism, #Hinduism, and more. We challenge #blindfaith with #logic, history, and #criticalthinking. We expose the roots of #religion, dissect #beliefsystems, and explore what happens when reason takes the lead.
"A group lead by cognitive scientists and AI researchers hailing from universities in the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, and the US, has published a searing position paper urging educators and administrations to reject corporate AI products. The paper is called, fittingly, “Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia,” and it makes an urgent and exhaustive case that universities should be doing a lot more to dispel tech industry hype and keep commercial AI tools out of the academy.
“It's the start of the academic year, so it's now or never,” Olivia Guest, an assistant professor of cognitive computational science at Radboud University, and the lead author of the paper, tells me. “We're already seeing students who are deskilled on some of the most basic academic skills, even in their final years.”
Indeed, preliminary research indicates that AI encourages cognitive offloading among students, and weakens retention and critical thinking skills.
The paper follows the publication in late June of an open letter to universities in the Netherlands, written by some of the same authors, and signed by over 1,100 academics, that took a “principled stand against the proliferation of so-called 'AI' technologies in universities.”"
