Steelmanning: How to Discover the Truth by Helping Your Opponent
Take the steelmanning challenge, a three-step method to win arguments whose only downside is that nobody will ever take it.
«Steelmanning, on the other hand, takes an existing counter position with the intent to make it as strong as possible. While devil’s advocacy can be a fun contrarian exercise, the steel man requires a bit more – shall we say – willpower.»
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Eight studies reveal a (possibly universal) bias in human imagination
«We figured that judgments must be built on comparisons: to say that something is bad is really to say that it’s worse than something else.»
Vehicles of Extraction • SftP Magazine
A look at the history and current supply chains of electric vehicles reveals why we must reject seeing them as climate change solutions.
«Their batteries are highly resource-intensive, requiring minerals from all over the world, and rising demand for EVs will produce a rush to increase extraction. Vehicle batteries account for much of the growth in mineral demand, and it won’t be extracted without serious consequences.»
The metaverse is inevitable, regardless of what happens to Meta
The metaverse is inevitable because it is hardwired into our DNA. Humans evolved to understand the world through first-person experiences.