"Imagine if you had infinite resources to build something that might topple the established world order, and all you could come up with was… an automatic internet troll10."
Plato vs Grok - by M. F. Robbins - The Value of Nothing
https://martinrobbins.substack.com/p/plato-vs-grok?utm_medium=ios
#techbro
#LLMS
#Society
#Psychology
#criticalthinking
#Philosophy
"After analyzing the 68 studies, we concluded that GenAI makes critical thinking worse by promoting automation bias, lowering metacognitive monitoring and embedding unverified mistakes into learners’ reasoning chains [...]"
The impact of generative AI on critical thinking skills: a systematic review, conceptual framework and future research directions | Information Discovery and Delivery | Emerald Publishing
"Whenever we make an appeal to reason in politics, the difficulty in this parable recurs. For there is an inherent difficulty about using the method of reason with an unreasoning world." -- Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion
Still as true today as it was written in 1922.
The #discourse of #philosophy - a short #journey through the #history of #philosophy
Start
“1st stop - at the old #Greeks in Athens and surroundings”, “2nd stop - at the meditating #Descartes in Ulm”, “3rd stop - in Königsberg at #Kant, who sees the light”, “4th stop - short detour to Nice to the all-negating #Nietzsche” and then finally “5th search for another #station”.
If you want to continue: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2025/07/29/diskurs-der-philosophie/
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
"Against the frailties & shortcomings of human cognition"
Sale: $18 to $1.99
by Steven Novella
Rating: 4.7/5 (1782 Reviews)
#Science #Books #human #CriticalThinking #Skeptic #Guide #BookSky
The Skeptics' Guide to the Uni...
Are #student #assignments which used ##grammarly or #ChatGPT as worthy of the #scores as #work wich didn't have that help?
If both cases are treated as #equal we are #teaching #students that there's no point in #learning.
It already happens including #university level.
We are #dumbing_down.
What happens if the #digital #assistance stops?
Would digitally supported students be able to work things out for themselves?
Will the #future need to be oversimplified?
#education #tech #criticalthinking
True Development: Beyond Tall Buildings and Performative Narcissism
Yeah, critically thinking, the Malays aren't the only "The People of Malaysia's Land (Bumiputera)." Bumiputera also includes me, Sabah and Sarawak indigenous ethnicities, and Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia. That's why I don't support Ketuanan Melayu. We need to bring justice to the indigenous peoples beyond Ketuanan Melayu propaganda.
Plot twist: asking "Is ChatGPT Making You Stupid?" while potentially using AI to think about it 
The real insight? AI should be "the beginning of thought, not the end." It's not about avoiding AI, but using it to enhance rather than replace our thinking.
Are you treating AI as a crutch or a catalyst?
https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/27/1818251/is-chatgpt-making-you-stupid
Is it possible to think critically about how society functions without having the necessary knowledge about how society functions, especially the economy?
#Reading #online #media, inc. major outlets the #errors is appalling. They use #AI #generated #text, they don't #proofread.
It only used to be #GIGO Garbage in/Garbage out and now we’ve added #HOGI #Human out/Garbage in.
AI has great uses in controlled conditions where the #dataharvest is strictly restricted to #validated #infornation Sadly, the day-to-day use of AI doesn’t follow that exemplar.
Which #generation will lose #criticalthinking & #creativity due to #artificialintelligence?
The Book of Rights:
A Manifesto for Individual Freedom
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/17533530
https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post/169061852
July 25, 2025 • (S5 E5) • 21:11
Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 
See related Substack Episode
"I spent years apologizing for who I was until I realized I'd forgotten who that even was. Today's dive into reclaiming your basic human rights 
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#criticalthinking? They're just joking!
If pundits tell you something is true, and you don't have the critical thinking skills to evaluate their statements, then you are putty in their hands, as they shape your world view to their will.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson)
#Wisdom #Quotes #NeildeGrasseTyson #CriticalThinking #Pundits #Truth
Future:
Be a critical thinker:
- be curious
- be questioning
- be open
Stay a step ahead of the next bad idea.
If you *always* agree with someone else on youtube or a blog or anywhere else I am going to assume you cannot think for yourself.
Read books. Read academic articles written by human beings. Read long-length blog posts written by people of flesh and blood. Ultimately. when it comes to scientific research there can be no shortcuts to the real hard work of really absorbing the meaning behind the text.
"Even if individual scientists benefit from adopting AI, it doesn’t mean science as a whole will benefit. When thinking about the macro effects, we are dealing with a complex system with emergent properties. That system behaves in surprising ways because it is not a market. It is better than markets at some things, like rewarding truth, but worse at others, such as reacting to technological shocks. So far, on balance, AI has been an unhealthy shock to science, stretching many of its processes to the breaking point.
Any serious attempt to forecast the impact of AI on science must confront the production-progress paradox. The rate of publication of scientific papers has been growing exponentially, increasing 500 fold between 1900 and 2015. But actual progress, by any available measure, has been constant or even slowing. So we must ask how AI is impacting, and will impact, the factors that have led to this disconnect.
Our analysis in this essay suggests that AI is likely to worsen the gap. This may not be true in all scientific fields, and it is certainly not a foregone conclusion. By carefully and urgently taking actions such as those we suggest below, it may be possible to reverse course. Unfortunately, AI companies, science funders, and policy makers all seem oblivious to what the actual bottlenecks to scientific progress are. They are simply trying to accelerate production, which is like adding lanes to a highway when the slowdown is actually caused by a toll booth. It’s sure to make things worse."
