Sunday, November 27, 2022

Gurwinder MEGATHREAD

Gurwinder is a good Twitter follow (he's part of my Must-Read list, which you're welcome to follow).

Like me, he's fascinated by fallacies. And he just posted a master list.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

#23 is pretty obvious these days.

Jim Leff said...

Yup.

But there's not a lot of fresh thinking these days, and Gurwinder's stuff is at least not brain-meltingly obvious.

I try to come up with freshness here, but that's why the Slog is so thinly-read. Confirmation bias is more dominant than people realize. Everyone wants to hear their own visceral convictions expressed a notch more eloquently and two notches more emphatically. That's the sweet spot.

Me, I avoid sweet spots. What I like to read is stuff that makes me realize what an idiot I am. So, following the Golden Rule, that's what I write. Most people would rather feel right than be right, and I just can't relate to that at all.

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