A short essay on a rare epistemic habit, and how to spot it from the outside There is a kind of person who pokes holes in things. They hear a confident claim and reach for the exception. They take the unpopular side at dinner. They cannot let a tidy conclusion sit there being tidy. The … Continue reading How to Recognize Someone Who Argues With Themselves
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The Cost of Seating: Rationality as Test Case
Capstone to the Seat series — a worked example of why the seat matters. The payoff of refusing the view from nowhere is not that it dissolves other people's confidence. It is the discipline that tells a staked position from one built so the world can't touch it. A disagreement gets answered, and the answer … Continue reading The Cost of Seating: Rationality as Test Case
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