Filed with Politics MOC · Related: Ideology & Foundations · 60.10 Argumentation
“The Big Problem I Have With Lex Fridman, Neil deGrasse Tyson & Sam Harris” | Gad Saad - YouTube
- Using satire to criticize ridiculous ideas
- Authenticity
- Variety of intellectual thought
- ‘epistemic humility’
- ‘vacuous platitudes’
- Anchoring thinking
- As you don’t need to think there’s 17,000 photons on that wave length looking there, you can say thats blue or yellow
- We all need an orienting mechanism
- Able to know you have that lens and question it when necessary as it has limitations
- People need a way to look at the world, orientate themselves, so they can understand the world and not start at the beginning everytime
- Seneca and Antifragility
“No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.”