superMemo2 Flashcards
(103 cards)
A simple Law of Motion
If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
G.K Chesterson quote on open-mindedness
“One should never be so open-minded that one’s brains fall out.”
Napoleon’s Law
Napoleon’s Law: Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
A funny ‘woke’ question…
Is it OK to ask ‘Is it OK to be white’? –I’m jujst asking for a friend.
Christopher Hitchens on Islamophobia
Islamophobia is a word created by fascists used by cowards to manipulate morons.
Einstein on what matters
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts,
A good racist quote
Being called a racist used to be because of what you did now it’s because of what you are.
The Iron Rule of nature and business (besides entropy)“
The iron rule of nature is: You get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.”
On Settled Science
Climate Change is ‘settled science’.But the difference between a man and a woman? ‘ Not settled. We have much to learn!’
The two ways a person can feel confidence
“There are two ways that a human being can feel confidence. One is knowledge, and the other is ignorance.” Charles Darwin
A couple of Notes on Stress and Small MistakesS
Stress is InformationA fear of small mistakes…an overreaction to small mistakes…makes large mistakes more likely and more severe.
Words of Wisdom from Vaclav Havel
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
The Third Left’s Recipe for Success
Turn entertainment into propaganda Education into indoctrination And mass media into thought-directing rather than news-providing journalists.
Paying now or later
“The man who needs a new machine tool and hasn’t purchased it yet is already paying for it.”It comes from an old machine tool ad, but it’s excellent nonetheless.
TOPOI on Resolution of Definition
- Is the interpretation or definition relevant? [ie define “murder” or “person”]2. Is the interpretation fair?3. How do you choose among competing definitions?
TOPOI for Resolution of Value
- Is the value (ie appraisal or comparison) truly good or bad as alleged?2. Which among competing values should be chosen or preferred?3. Has the value been properly applied?
Need for Closure
The need to reach a verdict in important matters to have an answer and to escape the feeling of doubt and uncertainty. The personal context (time or social pressure) might increase this bias.
TOPOI for Resolution of Policy
- Is there really a problem?2. Where is credit or blame due?3. Will the proposal even solve the problem?4. On balance, will the proposal be better than the current? —ie a cost/benefit analysis
A problem with affirmative action…
“One moves swiftly and imperceptibly from a world in which affirmative action can’t be ended because its beneficiaries are too weak to a world in which it can’t be ended because its beneficiaries are too strong.”
Dunning–Kruger Effect
Cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude.
Red Herring
A red herring is an idiom referring to a device which intends to divert the audience from the truth or an item of significance.[1] For example, in mystery fiction, an innocent party may be purposefully cast as highly suspect through emphasis or descriptive techniques; attention is drawn away from the true guilty party.
Magical Thinking of the Leftists
Magically, the government had no independent life or identity as an institution. It was not a player with its own selfish interests in the battle for power but merely the selfless representative of the masses’ true will and interest. No actual human beings would shape it with their own selfishness, greed, ambition, or personal perspective.
Fallacies of distraction
Fallacies of Distraction (aka Fallacies based on correlatives) include:False dilemma or false correlative. Here something which is not a correlative is treated as a correlative, excluding some other possibility.Denying the correlative where an attempt is made to introduce another option into a true correlative.Suppressed correlative where the definitions of a correlative are changed so that one of the options includes the other, making one option impossible.
Where you are apt to find success
You’ll be most successful where you’re most intensely interested. Another thing that I found is an intense interest of the subject is indispensable if you are really going to excel. I could force myself to be fairly good in a lot of things, but I couldn’t be really good in anything where I didn’t have an intense interest. So to some extent, you’re going to have to follow me. If at all feasible you want to drift into doing something in which you really have a natural interest.