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Hordoo10

When you read the news, don’t see the article you are reading in isolation. Try to see it in the context that produced it to draw understanding of our world from it.

It is the simpliest answer. Totally correct, but I hoped for more, when clicking title.

  1. It is not enough to read news media to get the context, allowing to judge reliability of news. I'd propose to read some books, to take a bigger picture, to grasp historical process which we are part of. To grasp some idea of metaphysics of human history. I couldn't explain what it is, because it is too comple
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2ChristianKl
It's easy to know that the New York Times and Fox news both have a pro-corporate bias. If you however are not exposed to the knowledge of how the Egyptian military competes against corporate actors in their economy you can't undo the bias when reading either source on the Egyptian revolution.  I'm skeptical that orienting yourself towards big news publishers is a good. One of the main problems is that their articles intend to stand on their own and usually don't link out much. A lot of articles contain little important information. I either read articles because someone recommends an article or because I research a given topic and then go to Wikipedia/Google/StackExchange. Do you have one that you would recommend in this context? I consider Stanovich's How to Think Straight About Psychology good in explaining how knowledge can be aquired in psychology. Gwern's essay on Causation is worth reading to remind oneselves that knowing things about the world is really hard and it's easy to be mislead. 
Hordoo30

("Snow is white" is true) if and only (snow is white)

"if and only IF", isnt it?

the notion of truth is quite different

Broken link to http://yudkowsky.net/bayes/truth.html

3Yoav Ravid
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Hordoo00

Not only the culture of disagreement takes place. When I see "+1", I think what a mind processes do that: commenter needs some attention but have nothing to say? And so when I want to post "+1", I do not do that, for someone didn't think the same about me. Usually I'm trying to make some complement to original post, or little correction to it with clear approval of the rest. Something not important and, at the same time, not just "+1".

There is a way to solve this problem, but it dangerous. Rationalist can watch discussion clos... (read more)