We often treat decision-making as a purely cognitive exercise. But bodies, context, and relationships are doing quiet work in the background.
Some of our worst decisions come from our "best" analysis, so here's how a more embodied approach can help:
https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/decision-making/
#DecisionMaking #SystemsThinking #CriticalThinking #Complexity
Looks like I’m not the only one to find that between-person differences in #criticalThinking didn’t replicate in within-person changes over time:
Testing #argumentMapping effects: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390977878
Assessing #higherEd over time: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-025-01000-1
Rational thinking in university students: Examining temporal stability and effects on academic performance and student satisfaction
Slop Is Everywhere for Those with Eyes to See
https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/slop-is-everywhere-for-those-with-eyes-to-see/
#HackerNews #Slop #Is #Everywhere #for #Those #with #Eyes #to #See #technology #insights #criticalthinking #awareness #culture
Framework fundamentalism: when your thinking tools become thinking cages.
Anarchist theory + pragmatist philosophy = liberation through temporariness
blog.dougbelshaw.com/cognitive-autonomous-zones/
All the noise about alignment from the advocates of 'AI Safety' is completely specious because AI already aligns with the hierarchical dualisms that shape our society at the deepest levels, especially misogyny, racism and a contempt for nature.
RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115819402267996681
"Because, after decades of throwing myself against a locked door, the door that leads to a new, good internet, one that delivers both the technological self-determination of the old, good internet, and the ease of use of Web 2.0 that let our normie friends join the party, that door has been unlocked.
Today, it is open a crack. It's open a crack!
And here's the weirdest part: Donald Trump is the guy who's unlocked that door."
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Do you also often have a #concept in #mind that you think about and observe frequently, but don't have a name for?
Well, maybe here's another one:
Manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_and_latent_functions_and_dysfunctions
These functions describe systems in #society:
Manifest functions and dysfunctions are expected.
Latent functions and dysfunctions are unexpected.
Functions lead to social stability, while dysfunctions lead to social instability.
Some examples (in part 2)
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What Cory Doctorow is referring to here is called a Latent Function:
https://floss.social/@janriemer/114859289566145579
It is an unintended/unexpected consequence of an event that can be observed "from outside" that leads to social stability.
Once you know that there is a concrete name for this concept you start to see it everywhere!
Try it yourself: Next time you are the "observer" of a decision, ask yourself: what are the possible latent functions and dysfunctions of this?
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Do you have a topic you want to debate, but no one willing to sit with the complexity instead of rushing to conclusions?
I am here for that kind of conversation.
Let us think out loud without turning it into a performance.
#ThoughtfulConversation #DeepThinking #Nuance #Complexity #CriticalThinking
#Ideas #Debate #IntellectualCuriosity #Philosophy #LongTermThinking
#FediMeta #AskFedi #WritersOfFedi #TechCulture #IndieWeb #OpenWeb
Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
https://www.seangoedecke.com/a-little-bit-cynical/
#HackerNews #SoftwareEngineers #Cynicism #TechCulture #CriticalThinking #ProfessionalDevelopment
2026 is the year of #AI sobriety - a Quiet #Rebellion in a World full of #Slop
- by persistent bloom
Invidious:
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=y39n3Mn6jac
(or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y39n3Mn6jac)
"Does this allow me to hear myself think? Or does it make it harder to hear what voice is my own?"
I absolutely love this! 💯 So many good points!
I also highly agree with the usefulness of smaller open language models.
#AISober #AISobriety #LLM #LLMs #ArtificialIntelligence #Art #Philosophy #CriticalThinking
I don't think Lindley's paradox supports p-circling
https://vilgot-huhn.github.io/mywebsite/posts/20251206_p_circle_lindley/
#HackerNews #LindleysParadox #pCircling #DecisionMaking #CriticalThinking #AIResearch
Secondary school maths showing that AI systems don't think
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/secondary-school-maths-showing-that-ai-systems-dont-think/
#HackerNews #SecondarySchoolMaths #AISystems #CriticalThinking #Education #Technology
The #institutions of academia were fractured and now they are broken.
Empower young people to make BETTER decisions than we've made: support critical thinking skills!
1️⃣ Be curious.
2️⃣ Be questioning.
3️⃣ Be OPEN to what you find.
#criticalthinking #media #education #politics #reasoning #information #knowledge #data #lifeskills #research
The #institutions of academia were fractured and now they are broken.
So many of these people I interact with on NextDoor simply haven’t thought it through. It’s amazing.
When you figure out how to detect and handle actual abusers, you find all these people who just mimic abusers because they haven’t been exposed to any other way.
Asking questions really is a super power in these troubling times. Don’t argue, don’t debate. Ask questions. It opens up everything. If they’re a genuine abuser or fascist, they will show their colors to everyone. If they’re just a follower, it gets them to think it through, sometimes for the first time. Even more, the attention you show can get them to trust you, let down their guard, and then anything you say can be actually heard.
(I might post screenshots later. But I have to take this slow to take care of myself.)
Empower young people to make BETTER decisions than we've made: support critical thinking skills!
1️⃣ Be curious.
2️⃣ Be questioning.
3️⃣ Be OPEN to what you find.
#criticalthinking #media #education #politics #reasoning #information #knowledge #data #lifeskills #research
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf]
https://gandalf.fee.urv.cat/professors/AntonioQuesada/Curs1920/Cipolla_laws.pdf
#HackerNews #HumanStupidity #BasicLaws #Cipolla1987 #PDFInsights #CriticalThinking #KnowledgeSharing
@RationalWiki , as a longtime admirer of RationalWiki , I'll just mention in case this hasn't been noticed that the Vanish cache layer currently cannot reach the back end engine (site therefore being down). Best wishes for site recovery, good folks.
#Google trips over its own words, when they sell you #Android it's the best computing device in the world that does everything. After you bought it Google doesn't let you do anything *you* want to.
#Sideload is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk.
What Do You Talk About When You Talk About Sideloading?
What does Google?
Here's #FDroid: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html
Our nonprofit group's award winning, prosocial, non-violent video games were removed by #Google.
🤥 They claimed that we had misled them by classifying them as #educational. Google purported to know more about our work than we do.
🎮 Our free games about #consent and #healthyrelationships were unilaterally removed from Google Play, making it much tougher for us to reach and help young people.
🧡 The ubiquity of smartphones make game marketplaces a necessary channel for us to reach #adolescents directly.
#indiegames #publichealth #violenceprevention #DVAM #antitrust #criticalthinking #dh #undueinfluence #duopoly #education #students @stopTDV
