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"Because you're seeing it through the lense of western media." No, I'm seeing it through taking a series of factually established premises, and comparing them.

by zeruch 5y ago

"Because you're seeing it through the lense of western media." No, I'm seeing it through taking a series of factually established premises, and comparing them. Critical thinking (however anecdotally a position one launches from) isn't a byproduct of "Western Media". "If you start with the assumption that Chinese government is trying to do good for its citizens, those are straight forward decisions." Are they? "CCTV protects people from street crime" ...or just makes investing in ski masks popular? Your statement is so absent any context (who has access to the CCTV, what legal recourse is there for auditing the footage from a privacy or legal evidentiary perspective), are there controls to prevent abuse, etc. I said nothing of a credit score. I said a social score, which is a very different, and much more contentious issue: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-system-explained https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-system-e...

Aperocky 5y ago
> Critical thinking Most people consider themselves critical thinkers, but subconsciously apply a bias on the sources they read. For instance they would go to depth on and apply every single possible suspicion on news that are against their perception, or failing that, just simply labeling it as 'false news'. At the same time, news or information that conforms to their bias are accepted as truth usually without any questions asked. It's alarming because most of the time it is worth a lot more to think critically of the news that conforms to what you believe - because you are already critical of those that are against it by default. That is what true critical thinking is.
- zeruch 5y ago
  Everyone applies bias at some level, period. That said, the threshold for lazy loading bias can be significantly different for people, and trying to become a Vulcan-Mentat combo might not be the most ideal goal. Actually applying some real rigor and not just resorting to convenient heuristics (e.g. "Western media", "MSM" , "leftist" or "rightist" or several other "ists" reflexively) usually is a good start. " most of the time it is worth a lot more to think critically of the news that conforms to what you believe" Agreed.

by zeruch 5y ago

Aperocky 5y ago

> Critical thinking Most people consider themselves critical thinkers, but subconsciously apply a bias on the sources they read. For instance they would go to depth on and apply every single possible suspicion on news that are against their perception, or failing that, just simply labeling it as 'false news'. At the same time, news or information that conforms to their bias are accepted as truth usually without any questions asked. It's alarming because most of the time it is worth a lot more to think critically of the news that conforms to what you believe - because you are already critical of those that are against it by default. That is what true critical thinking is.

zeruch 5y ago
Everyone applies bias at some level, period. That said, the threshold for lazy loading bias can be significantly different for people, and trying to become a Vulcan-Mentat combo might not be the most ideal goal. Actually applying some real rigor and not just resorting to convenient heuristics (e.g. "Western media", "MSM" , "leftist" or "rightist" or several other "ists" reflexively) usually is a good start. " most of the time it is worth a lot more to think critically of the news that conforms to what you believe" Agreed.