Effective thinking is like building a house of cards. There are a lot of unique negative feedback loops that could scuttle the whole thing, and also increased risk of collapse from more height and time.
But the winning strategy is to get in the habit of routinely/passively stacking cards; even if collapse is frequent and frustrating, it’s well worth it, it’s the best way to eventually end up making a stack of cards higher than anyone else ever has. That’s how Peter Singer and other philosophers became the first humans on Earth to discover the core arguments of Effective Altruism decades ago. Before that, nobody anywhere had stacked the cards high enough.
Effective thinking is like building a house of cards. There are a lot of unique negative feedback loops that could scuttle the whole thing, and also increased risk of collapse from more height and time.
But the winning strategy is to get in the habit of routinely/passively stacking cards; even if collapse is frequent and frustrating, it’s well worth it, it’s the best way to eventually end up making a stack of cards higher than anyone else ever has. That’s how Peter Singer and other philosophers became the first humans on Earth to discover the core arguments of Effective Altruism decades ago. Before that, nobody anywhere had stacked the cards high enough.
My instinctive reaction to
is that this seems to be more relevant to sequence thinking-generated arguments than cluster thinking ones (to use Holden’s terminology).