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i think in school, critical thinking, rationality, should be taught. rationality should be the fourth r. we should move aside trigonometry in high school, replace it with probability theory, which you actually use in your everyday life. there should be norms and etiquette about rationality. you should kind of lose social points if you argue from just some anecdote soor some rumor, you attack the person rather than the position, and we have to belong to communities where we can criticize each other, voice opinions, where accuracy counts in terms of a person s reputation. that s why we have democracy in the first place, and the founders were very clear on this. they said, you can t count on a rational leader to do what s best for the country because no one s that rational. you need a debate forum where anyone s ideas could be criticized by anyone else. ambition must counter ambition. you have the same thing in science with peer review. you need rules of the game that

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