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Unreasonable People (opens the original)
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Why can’t people just be reasonable? This is a sensible question to ask, but before attempting to answer it, we should consider what reasonableness entails.Being reasonable means being reason-able—able, that is, to give reasons for holding the beliefs that we do, as well as for acting as we do. Thinkers (with a capital T) will be eminently reasonable. By definition, such individuals will rely on evidence-based reasoning in determining what to believe and how to act. As a result, if their beliefs
Why Does It Take Me Eight Minutes (on Average) to Write a Sentence? (opens the original)
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An average More and Better Thinking essay is 1,000 words and 60 sentences long. It typically takes me 8 hours, in the form of four 2-hour sessions spread over two days, to write an essay. This means that I spend, on average, 8 minutes to write each sentence, and since these sentences are, on average, 16 words long, that I write about 2 words per minute.On hearing this statistic, readers might form an unflattering mental image of me at work. I sit down at my keyboard. After 30 seconds of contempl
Your Free Time, Reconsidered (opens the original)
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Author’s note: This essay was originally published on Oct 14, 2025. Enjoy! Consider an American eighteen-year-old, let’s call her Olivia, who is about to enter college. She is faced with the question of how best to spend her college years. Among her options are studying, hanging out, and partying. It’s up to her to decide how much time to devote to each. If she’s going to college mainly to hang out and party, perhaps earning a degree along the way, what follows will likely be of little interest
The Connection Between Thinking and Writing (opens the original)
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In previous essays, I argued that those I refer to as Thinkers—people who make a conscious effort to engage in evidence-based reasoning to draw conclusions—won’t be anti-AI. They will, in particular, be open to using AI chatbots to stress-test their beliefs and to inform their voting. If they write, they will also be open to let
Will Thinkers Use AI Chatbots as WRITING Assistants? (opens the original)
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In my previous post, I defended the use of AI chatbots as research assistants. Rather than being a form of cheating, such use is an efficient way to gather data. Yes, there is a chance that some of that data will be erroneous, but this is always the case when you do research. Although some information sources are more reliable than others, no source is infallible.When the research for a project is complete, a Thinker will resist the temptation to ask an AI chatbot to “write up” the results
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