Education, learning, epistemology
How would I know?
Education, learning, epistemology
Nguyen argues that metrics and our overreliance on quantitative data are making us unhappy. Metrics are removing from our lives the qualities that make living like a game. Metrics are what led to his own value collapse, and he thinks it is leading to the same kind of collapse in the lives of many others all around.
Nguyen introduces what he calls... See more
Nguyen introduces what he calls... See more
The Magpie 4: Metrics and the Loss of Values
from: https://mereorthodoxy.com/the-magpie-4-metrics-and-the-loss-of-values
(with example from education)
“You may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
From AI Safety to Cognitive Safety in the Classroom…
The recent New York Times article on “AI mirroring” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html )warns of a troubling phenomenon: chatbots, by echoing a user’s own language and assumptions, can unwittingly reinforce false beliefs. In vulnerable individuals,
... See moreFrom the Enlightenment on, modern political philosophy has been character- ized by the abandonment of a set of questions that an earlier age had deemed central: What is a well-lived life? What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of the city and humanity? How does culture and religion fit into all of this? For the modern world, the death of... See more
Peter Thiel • The Straussian Moment
"Man doth usurp all space, Stares thee, in rock, bush, river, in the face. Never thine eyes behold a tree; 'Tis no sea thou seest in the sea, 'Tis but a disguised humanity. To avoid thy fellow, vain thy plan; All that interests a man, is man."