The Dangers of Being Smart
Tauriq Moosa,
Jul 08, 2012
The point of this post is that "being smarter does not make you better at transcending unjustified views
and bad beliefs, all of which naturally then play into your life." But it sounds to me like they need to revisit their definition of "smarter". Because a part of being smart just is the reflective re-examination of one's own beliefs, reliance on the evidence, and consideration of alternative points of view. And what makes a person smart is that they do this better." Big Think this week has some related posts, including a 'rationality quiz' that tests your knowledge of some basic principles of probability, and an article on the 'lost aret' of thinking before you act, which reads to me like yet another occasion to defend capitalists and attack Occupy (*yawn*).
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