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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
-Buddha
-Buddha
26-30, M
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Keraunos · 36-40, M
That is some pretty creative whitewashing of cognitive bias.
Disturbed12 · 26-30, M
@Keraunos Can you elaborate?
Keraunos · 36-40, M
@Disturbed12 This advice could rather easily be read as encouraging deafness to external criticism (and that is very probably how it [i]would[/i] be taken by people already largely prone to cognitive bias, as they are not generally blessed with much of either self-awareness or a penchant for abstract thought).
Mind you, I wasn't being overly serious about that comment, as I assume the post is mainly intended as a joke to begin with, what with the facetious Buddha-attribution at the end of it and all.
Mind you, I wasn't being overly serious about that comment, as I assume the post is mainly intended as a joke to begin with, what with the facetious Buddha-attribution at the end of it and all.