Questions are the mind's immune system. Daily cases in spotting the trick before it spots you. 🧠✖️❔ https://xitter.gq/t.co/12HhDzhB7b
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A mind that questions itself is harder to fool.
One case a day: a claim, a hidden trick, and you.
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"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos (1980)
Worth remembering in the age of AI. A confident, fluent answer isn't the same as a true one, whether it comes from a person, a headline or a chatbot. The bigger the claim, the more it's worth checking.
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“The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad.”
– Michel Foucault
If you never know when you're being watched, who ends up doing the watching?
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Two things rising together can look like one causing the other. Often a third thing, the one nobody is watching, is moving both.
Where have you seen a hidden third factor get missed?
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A claim arrives one clue at a time. Somewhere inside it, a trick.
The sooner you name it, the less it costs you.
One case a day. Inspector Truth vs Dr Fallacy.
critthinker.com/play/trickle
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What protects a mind from being fooled? Not raw intelligence, it turns out. The research points to habits: pausing, checking, admitting you might be wrong. Seven studies, honestly summarised. 🧵
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Honest mixed result: Philosophy for Children. An earlier EEF trial was positive, but a larger 198-school trial found no effect on reading or maths.
CT lesson: enjoying thinking isn't proof it transfers. Test it.
educationendowmentfoundation…
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So we sketched a hypothesis (ours, untested, not established science):
V = (E × T) / (R × C)
Vulnerability rises with emotional stake and trust; falls with reflection and checking.
Train R and C at CritThinker.com
Fun thought experiment, but worth separating the layers:
What was said: "saving for the distant future is pointless" with superintelligent abundance.
What wasn't: anything about simulations.
The real question is the first claim. How sure are we abundance arrives, and when? 🧠
What's a small habit or rule of thumb that stops you getting fooled? Share yours, someone else might need it.
Anchoring bias: leaning too hard on the first number you hear when judging what comes next.
A jacket "was £120, now £60" feels like a steal, even if you'd never have paid £60 for it without that first price.
Spotted this one lately?