Quote: (05-05-2013 08:27 AM)Aer Wrote:
After this, I lost almost all respect for Ted Talks and everything they entail. The endless propaganda continues, and even my friend recommended this to me.
This might be "overgeneralization." I've seen ted talks that were extremely interesting, by people who are doing big things in highly important things like education.
The temptation to overgeneralization is widespread and self-destructive, although we have to make some generalizations.
Healthy generalization:
" The last car I saw swerving around at high speed on a highway I later passed after it crashed. Therefore if I see a car swerving recklessly I stay away from it."
Particularly common in Man-o-sphere:
"That bitch was rude to me, I've lost all respect for women and I don't want to hear about NAWALT."
Particularly lazy are two-way divisions used to avoid critical thought about specifics of complex situations: red-blue pill; Left and Right.
An interesting idea I just thought of was the idea of "economies of generalization"
For instance, I might not be an expert in cars, so when I rent a car I simply always ask for a Toyota because I have never been disappointed.
This may be an oversimplification, but also may be the most efficient approach because the marginal improvement for car-renting by learning more might be a net loss.
An example might be many people living in Manhattan never learn to drive. They might be doing more interesting things and spending their money in better ways than on cars.
