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Taking pleasure in being wrong (with Buck Shlegeris)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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How to Write a Good Essay

I like that approach because I think that there's often this form of writing people do where they're not stating anything sort of concretely enough or strongly enough for you to really disagree. So when I'm trying to figure out what I believe about things, a lot of the time my approach is to make up some extremely oversimplified frame. Whenever anyone said something relevant to this question, I would first think of it in that frame with the hope of basically like, I have this like shiny new frame and the frame is probably not 100% correct. It seems really healthy to start out by trying to interpret everything through it and see how often it needs to make concessions.

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