Questions are the mind's immune system. Daily cases in spotting the trick before it spots you. 🧠✖️❔ https://teapawt.org/t.co/12HhDzhB7b
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A mind that questions itself is harder to fool.
One case a day: a claim, a hidden trick, and you.
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“The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad.”
– Michel Foucault
If you never know when you're being watched, who ends up doing the watching?
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Two things rising together can look like one causing the other. Often a third thing, the one nobody is watching, is moving both.
Where have you seen a hidden third factor get missed?
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A claim arrives one clue at a time. Somewhere inside it, a trick.
The sooner you name it, the less it costs you.
One case a day. Inspector Truth vs Dr Fallacy.
critthinker.com/play/trickle
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What protects a mind from being fooled? Not raw intelligence, it turns out. The research points to habits: pausing, checking, admitting you might be wrong. Seven studies, honestly summarised. 🧵
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Honest mixed result: Philosophy for Children. An earlier EEF trial was positive, but a larger 198-school trial found no effect on reading or maths.
CT lesson: enjoying thinking isn't proof it transfers. Test it.
educationendowmentfoundation…
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So we sketched a hypothesis (ours, untested, not established science):
V = (E × T) / (R × C)
Vulnerability rises with emotional stake and trust; falls with reflection and checking.
Train R and C at CritThinker.com
Fun thought experiment, but worth separating the layers:
What was said: "saving for the distant future is pointless" with superintelligent abundance.
What wasn't: anything about simulations.
The real question is the first claim. How sure are we abundance arrives, and when? 🧠
What's a small habit or rule of thumb that stops you getting fooled? Share yours, someone else might need it.
Anchoring bias: leaning too hard on the first number you hear when judging what comes next.
A jacket "was £120, now £60" feels like a steal, even if you'd never have paid £60 for it without that first price.
Spotted this one lately?
Two ways to react to a headline:
Fallacy-led: "Look who's praising him, so he must be wrong." ❌
Truth-seeking: "What was actually said, and does the story match it?" ✅
One picks a side. 🐑
The other checks the facts. 🧠
Bentham said "the community" doesn't really exist. Only the people in it do.
"The interest of the community then is, what?—the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it."
– Jeremy Bentham, 1789
What do you think he meant?
What he meant: a community has no wants of its own. "Good for the community" only makes sense if it's good for the people in it, added up.
Source: Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, Ch. I, §4
Where do you see this today?
Today's card: critthinker.com/daily
