Rationality and Precise Thinking (Ep. 57)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

We're pressured to have opinions on everything - but how do you know what your opinion actually represents? In this episode, we'll scratch the surface of rational thinking with an analysis of heuristics. This episode may challenge you. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: The original article - How to Avoid Black and White Thinking Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Less Wrong Thinking, Fast and Slow Predictably Irrational An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem The probabilistic nature of the Second Law of Thermodynamics Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:34.0	Hey what's up everybody my name is Thomas Frank and
0:41.0	this is the college info geek podcast a show aimed at helping you become a more
0:45.1	effective student and maybe even just a more effective human being. Yeah I feel a
0:49.7	little bit sneaky here but one thing I've realized since graduating college is that student is just a
0:56.1	label for a time in your life where there's a lot more concentrated learning and I personally
1:02.2	like to keep learning even though I'm not a student anymore.
1:04.4	So a lot of the things I focus on with this podcast and with the things I learn myself
1:09.6	are not only for people in an institutionalized learning bubble I guess you could say it's for
1:16.9	anybody who wants to learn and be more effective you could probably tell that I'm going into a topic this week that really isn't focused on school and you would be right so
1:29.6	This week I want to highlight a piece of writing that I did back in October, and I was pretty proud of it.
1:36.0	Maybe it's utter rubbish, who knows, but I liked it when it came out and only about 300 people read it.
1:42.0	And I know why why because this topic isn't something that is easily
1:46.8	latched onto by people who don't tend to read the kind of things I read it's a bit
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