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  1. In response to someone giddy over an imagined future where the only human job will be critical thinking, I tried to point out that bias may have blinded him to the thinking people already do.

    What they are overlooking is the domain-level knowledge which keeps mechanics/​electricians/​plumbers/​welders in trade schools/​guilds/​product manuals, truck drivers/​bus drivers/​pilots in trade schools/​behind the wheel of specific machines for years at a go, engineers at university/​conferences/​industry papers/​manufacturers data sheets and scientists/​mathematicians at university/​conferences/​academic papers/​libraries/​research projects for the whole of their careers. They spend their lives to know how to make judgments on the decisions that the non-domain expert doesn’t even credit as a knowledge domain. If society doesn’t treat their particularized expertise as equally valuable, that doesn’t change that it’s the same human skills and effort to learn and gain the expertise to get the desired job done *right*. A lifetime of socialized specialization just so they can be judged on the fields they aren’t experts in.

    People think all the time. And people are much more critical about the thinking of those in outgroups than their own friends, even when nearly everyone believes some crazy thing or has a blind spot in their thinking.

    But white collar workers fetishize the forms of white collar management: memos, poster boards, diagrams, etc. without recognizing that the mode of education and prestige of the domain have little bearing on the quality of the thinking.

    #CriticalThinking #DomainExpertise #SkilledTrades #HumanIntelligence #FutureOfWork #AI #CognitiveBias #DignityOfLabor

  2. In response to someone giddy over an imagined future where the only human job will be critical thinking, I tried to point out that bias may have blinded him to the thinking people already do.

    What they are overlooking is the domain-level knowledge which keeps mechanics/​electricians/​plumbers/​welders in trade schools/​guilds/​product manuals, truck drivers/​bus drivers/​pilots in trade schools/​behind the wheel of specific machines for years at a go, engineers at university/​conferences/​industry papers/​manufacturers data sheets and scientists/​mathematicians at university/​conferences/​academic papers/​libraries/​research projects for the whole of their careers. They spend their lives to know how to make judgments on the decisions that the non-domain expert doesn’t even credit as a knowledge domain. If society doesn’t treat their particularized expertise as equally valuable, that doesn’t change that it’s the same human skills and effort to learn and gain the expertise to get the desired job done *right*. A lifetime of socialized specialization just so they can be judged on the fields they aren’t experts in.

    People think all the time. And people are much more critical about the thinking of those in outgroups than their own friends, even when nearly everyone believes some crazy thing or has a blind spot in their thinking.

    But white collar workers fetishize the forms of white collar management: memos, poster boards, diagrams, etc. without recognizing that the mode of education and prestige of the domain have little bearing on the quality of the thinking.

    #CriticalThinking #DomainExpertise #SkilledTrades #HumanIntelligence #FutureOfWork #AI #CognitiveBias #DignityOfLabor

  3. In response to someone giddy over an imagined future where the only human job will be critical thinking, I tried to point out that bias may have blinded him to the thinking people already do.

    What they are overlooking is the domain-level knowledge which keeps mechanics/​electricians/​plumbers/​welders in trade schools/​guilds/​product manuals, truck drivers/​bus drivers/​pilots in trade schools/​behind the wheel of specific machines for years at a go, engineers at university/​conferences/​industry papers/​manufacturers data sheets and scientists/​mathematicians at university/​conferences/​academic papers/​libraries/​research projects for the whole of their careers. They spend their lives to know how to make judgments on the decisions that the non-domain expert doesn’t even credit as a knowledge domain. If society doesn’t treat their particularized expertise as equally valuable, that doesn’t change that it’s the same human skills and effort to learn and gain the expertise to get the desired job done *right*. A lifetime of socialized specialization just so they can be judged on the fields they aren’t experts in.

    People think all the time. And people are much more critical about the thinking of those in outgroups than their own friends, even when nearly everyone believes some crazy thing or has a blind spot in their thinking.

    But white collar workers fetishize the forms of white collar management: memos, poster boards, diagrams, etc. without recognizing that the mode of education and prestige of the domain have little bearing on the quality of the thinking.

    #CriticalThinking #DomainExpertise #SkilledTrades #HumanIntelligence #FutureOfWork #AI #CognitiveBias #DignityOfLabor

  4. In response to someone giddy over an imagined future where the only human job will be critical thinking, I tried to point out that bias may have blinded him to the thinking people already do.

    What they are overlooking is the domain-level knowledge which keeps mechanics/​electricians/​plumbers/​welders in trade schools/​guilds/​product manuals, truck drivers/​bus drivers/​pilots in trade schools/​behind the wheel of specific machines for years at a go, engineers at university/​conferences/​industry papers/​manufacturers data sheets and scientists/​mathematicians at university/​conferences/​academic papers/​libraries/​research projects for the whole of their careers. They spend their lives to know how to make judgments on the decisions that the non-domain expert doesn’t even credit as a knowledge domain. If society doesn’t treat their particularized expertise as equally valuable, that doesn’t change that it’s the same human skills and effort to learn and gain the expertise to get the desired job done *right*. A lifetime of socialized specialization just so they can be judged on the fields they aren’t experts in.

    People think all the time. And people are much more critical about the thinking of those in outgroups than their own friends, even when nearly everyone believes some crazy thing or has a blind spot in their thinking.

    But white collar workers fetishize the forms of white collar management: memos, poster boards, diagrams, etc. without recognizing that the mode of education and prestige of the domain have little bearing on the quality of the thinking.

    #CriticalThinking #DomainExpertise #SkilledTrades #HumanIntelligence #FutureOfWork #AI #CognitiveBias #DignityOfLabor

  5. In response to someone giddy over an imagined future where the only human job will be critical thinking, I tried to point out that bias may have blinded him to the thinking people already do.

    What they are overlooking is the domain-level knowledge which keeps mechanics/​electricians/​plumbers/​welders in trade schools/​guilds/​product manuals, truck drivers/​bus drivers/​pilots in trade schools/​behind the wheel of specific machines for years at a go, engineers at university/​conferences/​industry papers/​manufacturers data sheets and scientists/​mathematicians at university/​conferences/​academic papers/​libraries/​research projects for the whole of their careers. They spend their lives to know how to make judgments on the decisions that the non-domain expert doesn’t even credit as a knowledge domain. If society doesn’t treat their particularized expertise as equally valuable, that doesn’t change that it’s the same human skills and effort to learn and gain the expertise to get the desired job done *right*. A lifetime of socialized specialization just so they can be judged on the fields they aren’t experts in.

    People think all the time. And people are much more critical about the thinking of those in outgroups than their own friends, even when nearly everyone believes some crazy thing or has a blind spot in their thinking.

    But white collar workers fetishize the forms of white collar management: memos, poster boards, diagrams, etc. without recognizing that the mode of education and prestige of the domain have little bearing on the quality of the thinking.

    #CriticalThinking #DomainExpertise #SkilledTrades #HumanIntelligence #FutureOfWork #AI #CognitiveBias #DignityOfLabor

  6. DATE: August 12, 2026 at 11:45PM
    SOURCE: SCIENCE DAILY MIND-BRAIN FEED

    TITLE: Why your brain keeps making the same decisions – even when better options exist

    URL: sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

    Why do we keep making the same choices even when better options are available? Researchers found that simply repeating a decision can reshape what we prefer, causing familiar choices to feel better than alternatives. Instead of weighing every option from scratch, the brain often remembers what it chose before and repeats it. That shortcut may help explain many everyday habits and seemingly irrational decisions.

    URL: sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

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  7. OSINT Isn’t About Skill Anymore. It’s About Systems

    There’s a moment, if you spend enough time in this space, where your attention changes. You stop looking at individual data points as things to extract. You start seeing them as inputs to a larger structure.

    cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/