Daily Philosophy: Carson Dials·1d agoThe Irrational Need To be Too RationalI look around at today’s culture and even within myself I notice that we’ve become too rational about everything, we think we know it all…
ReONEth·Oct 26Beyond the God of the Gaps: Do We Actually Need the Institution of God?For centuries, human discourse has been locked in a cyclical, exhausting debate: Does God exist? Billions of words have been spilled trying…
Marty Nemko·Oct 24The Costs of RationalityMy best ability is to think rationally, and I wouldn’t trade it for a million dollars. But I am aware of rationality’s downsides:
Zubair Lone·Oct 23Not Everything You Think You Saw HappenedMindfulness is often described as being present. But being present is not merely about noticing what is happening around us. It is also…
Labyba Ferdous·Oct 15How AI Is Changing the Way We ThinkWe are getting better at finding answers. But are we still learning how to think?
Data4Insight2Action·Oct 8Goodhart’s Law: Why Data-Driven Decision Making Often Backfires“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” — Charles Goodhart (1975)
Prithvi S·Oct 5Periyar EV Ramasamy: From Gandhian Activism to Rational Thinking and Strategic LeadershipThanthai Periyar, or Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy (EVR), though was privileged by birth, The grand old man was regarded for his campaigns of…A response icon1A response icon1
DWM·Oct 4Why Martin Hollis’s The Cunning of Reason Makes Rationality More ComplicatedWhat if being rational does not necessarily mean knowing where your actions will lead?
J_the_siu_fish·Sep 30My Personal University Lesson 46: The Tragedy of the Commons — When Rational Individual Choices…Core principle: What is rational for one person can become destructive when everyone does the same thing.
Vitrectman·Sep 29Being Rational Is Not the Same as Being RightWhy we so easily convince ourselves we’re right, and what Reality has to say about it