“ I think we have to get to a time in which people are embarrassed to pretend to know things they don’t know. We need an attitudinal change in the culture and the only way to do that is to make sense all at once on a thousands sides and to not tolerate obvious bullshit… Read good books, write good books, have consequential conversations. Ask hard questions to people who clearly don’t know what they’re talking about and expose their ignorance, hypocrisy, and doublethink to the world whenever you can.
Sam Harris, Ask Sam Harris Anything #1
Sam was asked: “What should we do next? I feel like I’m adrift in a sea of rationality with no clear goal in sight. What do you think are practical goals for a passionate pro-reasoning activist, especially those still in college?” (via therecipe)
Sam was asked: “What should we do next? I feel like I’m adrift in a sea of rationality with no clear goal in sight. What do you think are practical goals for a passionate pro-reasoning activist, especially those still in college?” (via therecipe)
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