#critical-thinking — Public Fediverse posts

Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do?

https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/the-illusion-of-explanatory-depth

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079175

#HackerNews #understanding #bias #cognitivebias #explanatorydepth #illusionofunderstanding #criticalthinking

Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do?

https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/the-illusion-of-explanatory-depth

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079175

#HackerNews #understanding #bias #cognitivebias #explanatorydepth #illusionofunderstanding #criticalthinking

LLMs having the effect of diminishing critical thinking is a happy accident for those in power who only want us to consume.

#LLMs #ai #criticalThinking #consumerism #eattherich #composttherich

LLMs having the effect of diminishing critical thinking is a happy accident for those in power who only want us to consume.

#LLMs #ai #criticalThinking #consumerism #eattherich #composttherich

https://open.substack.com/pub/aldogrech/p/born-free-bred-to-kneel

Submission to authority isn't human nature, it's manufactured. 2008 proved it: same crash, same playbook, different flags — Brexit, Trump, Sanders, Orban. Medium and LinkedIn versions coming.

#Democracy #Populism #CriticalThinking

https://open.substack.com/pub/aldogrech/p/born-free-bred-to-kneel

Submission to authority isn't human nature, it's manufactured. 2008 proved it: same crash, same playbook, different flags — Brexit, Trump, Sanders, Orban. Medium and LinkedIn versions coming.

#Democracy #Populism #CriticalThinking

Society is starting to look exactly like what happens when we spend decades treating STEM as the only path worth investing in, while sidelining the humanities.

This isn't a criticism of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. We need them. Desperately. They should be well supported.

But we also need philosophy, history, literature, languages, ethics, the arts, and every discipline that wrestles with what it means to be human. We need people who can understand the human condition, recognise propaganda, interpret context, think critically about power, engage with complexity, and ask not only how the world works, but what kind of world we ought to build.

A society built only to solve technical problems eventually forgets how to solve human ones.

#Humanities #STEM #Education #CriticalThinking #Ethics #Democracy #Society

Society is starting to look exactly like what happens when we spend decades treating STEM as the only path worth investing in, while sidelining the humanities.

This isn't a criticism of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. We need them. Desperately. They should be well supported.

But we also need philosophy, history, literature, languages, ethics, the arts, and every discipline that wrestles with what it means to be human. We need people who can understand the human condition, recognise propaganda, interpret context, think critically about power, engage with complexity, and ask not only how the world works, but what kind of world we ought to build.

A society built only to solve technical problems eventually forgets how to solve human ones.

#Humanities #STEM #Education #CriticalThinking #Ethics #Democracy #Society

Have you ever thought about the power of small things done for a long time?
And did you know that tiny seeds sprout?
#mastodon #fediverse #linux #psychology #books #library #wisdom #knowledge #photography #unitedstates #europe #australia #vision #sunday #Dort #criticalthinking #CliticalHits #education #learning #success #ideas #artificialintelligence #world #people #socialmedia #AdvancedTeaching #technology #Tuesday #boost #personalgrowth

Have you ever thought about the power of small things done for a long time?
And did you know that tiny seeds sprout?
#mastodon #fediverse #linux #psychology #books #library #wisdom #knowledge #photography #unitedstates #europe #australia #vision #sunday #Dort #criticalthinking #CliticalHits #education #learning #success #ideas #artificialintelligence #world #people #socialmedia #AdvancedTeaching #technology #Tuesday #boost #personalgrowth

There's a study doing the rounds that puts a number on something I think most of us have felt but not measured: give people AI advice, and their accuracy on a task drops from 27% to 9% — while their confidence goes up. Worse: their willingness to say "I don't know" collapses from 44% down to 3%.

That last figure is the one that feels sad. Not knowing is a normal and useful state. It's what stops you from acting on a bad guess. If AI advice makes people three times more likely to guess wrong while feeling sure about it, the tool isn't just failing to help — it's actively removing the one safeguard that would have caught the failure. Common sense.

Worth sitting with if you're building anything that hands out "advice" to end users, not just answers to lookup questions.

https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study

#ai #criticalthinking #humancomputerinteraction #research

There's a study doing the rounds that puts a number on something I think most of us have felt but not measured: give people AI advice, and their accuracy on a task drops from 27% to 9% — while their confidence goes up. Worse: their willingness to say "I don't know" collapses from 44% down to 3%.

That last figure is the one that feels sad. Not knowing is a normal and useful state. It's what stops you from acting on a bad guess. If AI advice makes people three times more likely to guess wrong while feeling sure about it, the tool isn't just failing to help — it's actively removing the one safeguard that would have caught the failure. Common sense.

Worth sitting with if you're building anything that hands out "advice" to end users, not just answers to lookup questions.

https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study

#ai #criticalthinking #humancomputerinteraction #research

Light cannot help but cast a shadow. What we do with this is what differentiates us from others. #criticalthinking #psychology #philosophy

Light cannot help but cast a shadow. What we do with this is what differentiates us from others. #criticalthinking #psychology #philosophy

https://pivic.blog/blog/ai-open-source-and-thought/

I just published a blog post on AI, a recent fight in the open-source world, and thought.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Plex #Jellyfin #thought #CriticalThinking

https://pivic.blog/blog/ai-open-source-and-thought/

I just published a blog post on AI, a recent fight in the open-source world, and thought.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Plex #Jellyfin #thought #CriticalThinking

…which may, in fact, be why some folks want to try to discredit it. It’s something we all can be duped by.

And the more pitfalls we become aware of around our critical thinking processes, the -better- we are likely to become as critical thinkers.

#CriticalThinking

…which may, in fact, be why some folks want to try to discredit it. It’s something we all can be duped by.

And the more pitfalls we become aware of around our critical thinking processes, the -better- we are likely to become as critical thinkers.

#CriticalThinking

If something is neither provable nor refutable, is it worth debating?

Maybe that should be the first question asked before getting involved in an argument that won't go anywhere.

#science
#Philosophy
#logic
#reasoning
#CriticalThinking

If something is neither provable nor refutable, is it worth debating?

Maybe that should be the first question asked before getting involved in an argument that won't go anywhere.

#science
#Philosophy
#logic
#reasoning
#CriticalThinking

"How do you live in a world that you don't understand? What you do is you try and cover your downside for losses and open for the upside. And for that you need to be corrigible. You need to be open to being wrong."
This was a summary of Nassim Taleb's "Antifragile" book according to Mark Blyth, political economist.

On bubbles, commodification, the values of economics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNlPnd4aVs0

#uncertainty #mistakes #corrigibility #criticalThinking #adaptability #learning #quotes #NassimTaleb #MarkBlyth #Antifragile #bookStodon #book #video #economics #wealth #taxation #austerity #concentration #capitalism #immigration

"How do you live in a world that you don't understand? What you do is you try and cover your downside for losses and open for the upside. And for that you need to be corrigible. You need to be open to being wrong."
This was a summary of Nassim Taleb's "Antifragile" book according to Mark Blyth, political economist.

On bubbles, commodification, the values of economics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNlPnd4aVs0

#uncertainty #mistakes #corrigibility #criticalThinking #adaptability #learning #quotes #NassimTaleb #MarkBlyth #Antifragile #bookStodon #book #video #economics #wealth #taxation #austerity #concentration #capitalism #immigration

His gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand #criticalthinking #psychology #philosophy

His gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand #criticalthinking #psychology #philosophy

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🤖🧠 #Computer scientist Peter J. Denning argues that Alan Turing’s 1950 framing sent #AI #research in the wrong direction by suggesting #human #intelligence could exist without the body.

👉 https://scitechdaily.com/why-ai-may-never-reach-human-intelligence/

#artificialintelligence #philosophy #computerscience #alanTuring #criticalthinking #science #technology #tech #culture

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🤖🧠 #Computer scientist Peter J. Denning argues that Alan Turing’s 1950 framing sent #AI #research in the wrong direction by suggesting #human #intelligence could exist without the body.

👉 https://scitechdaily.com/why-ai-may-never-reach-human-intelligence/

#artificialintelligence #philosophy #computerscience #alanTuring #criticalthinking #science #technology #tech #culture

Oooh, and one more that pretty much hits the nail on the head:

“By outsourcing our thinking to AI, we remove friction. Growth happens because of friction. Don’t remove friction if you want to grow. People are messy. How are we going to get better at dealing with that messiness if we remove the mess from our own lives? We have to live before we lead”

Saving that one 👆🏻for future reference 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

#GenAI #SovereignByDesign #Leadership #CriticalThinking

Here are a couple of noteworthy quotes:

“Credible leaders build trust among employees, investors, and the general public through translating data into meaning. By conveying that meaning, they build motivation, inspiring others toward a shared vision”

“They want to work for people who truly understand the product, the market, the job. People who have faced the same day-to-day struggles and can speak to all of them honestly”

#GenAI #SovereignByDesign #Leadership #CriticalThinking

“[…] some of them are outsourcing their thinking to AI, and their best people are the first to notice” 👉🏻 https://fortune.com/2026/07/20/plank-chauffeur-ai-leadership-warning/

“If the CEO wasn’t willing to think hard about where they were going, why should anyone else?” 👈🏻🤯 That's quite a contradictory statement for a group of people (= Managers. & Leaders alike) who keep pushing in full throttle for #GenAI within their own orgs.

What gives? 🤔

#SovereignByDesign #Leadership #CriticalThinking

@Godfrey642
A great example of management drunk on marketing kool aid (the left behind thing is indicative of hard marketing) because that is exactly what is happening with #GenAiSlop (not all AIs are similarly shit). In the case of the AI bandwagon and marketing hype, it is a condition referred to #AIPsychosis (I tooted about that a little while ago) with no known cure but eventual failure.

It is staggering to learn that some of the most remunerated executives fail to apply a smidgen of #criticalthinking and do #DueDiligence before mandating AI useage. So much for the insistence of offering big pay packages to attract ‘the best’.

Dear dog, this world has gone to pot…

@Godfrey642
A great example of management drunk on marketing kool aid (the left behind thing is indicative of hard marketing) because that is exactly what is happening with #GenAiSlop (not all AIs are similarly shit). In the case of the AI bandwagon and marketing hype, it is a condition referred to #AIPsychosis (I tooted about that a little while ago) with no known cure but eventual failure.

It is staggering to learn that some of the most remunerated executives fail to apply a smidgen of #criticalthinking and do #DueDiligence before mandating AI useage. So much for the insistence of offering big pay packages to attract ‘the best’.

Dear dog, this world has gone to pot…

Respect the past. Learn from it. Build on it. Progress becomes stronger when truth remains unchanged. #Leadership #History #DecisionMaking #Growth #Trust #Accountability #LeadershipLessons #Learning #CriticalThinking #Legacy
https://stayingalive.in/thought-of-the-day/the-weight-of-yesterday.html

Respect the past. Learn from it. Build on it. Progress becomes stronger when truth remains unchanged. #Leadership #History #DecisionMaking #Growth #Trust #Accountability #LeadershipLessons #Learning #CriticalThinking #Legacy
https://stayingalive.in/thought-of-the-day/the-weight-of-yesterday.html

I was out at a tech meetup last week when I mentioned I was going to a conference on stats education this week. “Sounds riveting” said someone, with the deepest sarcasm. The thing is, stats are riveting. Stats are powerful. If we’re not showing kids the magic of it all, how can we expect them to love it like we do?

I was out at a tech meetup last week when I mentioned I was going to a conference on stats education this week. “Sounds riveting” said someone, with the deepest sarcasm. The thing is, stats are riveting. Stats are powerful. If we’re not showing kids the magic of it all, how can we expect them to love it like we do?

"They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist,"

Utah Phillips

#quoteoftheday #CriticalThinking #Profit #Reist

AI advice made people 3x less accurate but 2x confident, researchers found

https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48971738

#HackerNews #AIresearch #CriticalThinking #Confidence #Study #Findings

AI advice made people 3x less accurate but 2x confident, researchers found

https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48971738

#HackerNews #AIresearch #CriticalThinking #Confidence #Study #Findings

What ideas will thrive from your funding? #criticalthinking #psychology #philosophy

What ideas will thrive from your funding? #criticalthinking #psychology #philosophy

RE: https://floss.social/@ramblingsteve/116945912010965459

"So basically people became much worse – the accuracy was only one third – but they were twice as confident," he said.

…

"I'm very much concerned for children, because adults have learned critical thinking. But for children who basically are born with these systems, the risk is that they don't even learn the basic critical skills."

#hallucination #confidence #LLM #CriticalThinking

RE: https://floss.social/@ramblingsteve/116945912010965459

"So basically people became much worse – the accuracy was only one third – but they were twice as confident," he said.

…

"I'm very much concerned for children, because adults have learned critical thinking. But for children who basically are born with these systems, the risk is that they don't even learn the basic critical skills."

#hallucination #confidence #LLM #CriticalThinking

Citizen: Adjectives Not Required

https://simplebender.com/2026/07/18/citizen-adjectives-not-required/

Citizen: Adjectives Not Required

https://simplebender.com/2026/07/18/citizen-adjectives-not-required/

An enjoyable analysis. So nice to read a classical critique in a (wine dark) sea of rage bait hot takes.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/15/the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-classicists-verdict

#odyssey2026 #cinema #movies #criticalthinking

An enjoyable analysis. So nice to read a classical critique in a (wine dark) sea of rage bait hot takes.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/15/the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-classicists-verdict

#odyssey2026 #cinema #movies #criticalthinking

Even black & white televisions made gray #criticalthinking #psychology #philosophy