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Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/59422307@N00/213496044 I love everything about this Skeptoid post, in which Brian makes great points about the peril of debating when the truth is on your side. It’s counter-intuitive on first consideration, but as I’ve mused previously, debating has relatively little to do with truth and mostly pivots on charisma and debate tactics (many of . . . → Read More: More debate fail Image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/electropod/3167236184/ I don’t have a lot to add to this excellent post about the narrative fallacy at lesswrong. Here are some great excerpts, to convince you to go read the whole thing: Essentially, the narrative fallacy is our tendency to turn everything we see into a story – a linear chain of cause and effect, . . . → Read More: That’s the story of my life |
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