We believe things because doing so helps us belong and upholds a certain moral order, but not necessarily because they are true.
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‘In America, the law is king!’ ‘No King! No Tyranny!’ For a skeptical Thomas Paine, every day was ‘No Kings Day.’
The meaning and application of due process has become a crucial issue in the US, most often with respect to the Trump administration’s migrant deportation efforts.
Rhetoric around ‘common sense’ tends to focus attention away from climate action, but it has not always been aligned with a free-market economy.
When common sense is promoted as a virtue, it’s not just to celebrate how regular people understand the world. It promotes a worldview that rejects empirical facts and paves the way for propaganda.
We often view common sense as an authority of collective knowledge that is universal and constant.
Large language models can’t understand language the way humans do because they can’t perceive and make sense of the world.
Common sense is a broad and diverse set of abilities that help define what it means to be human. AI researchers are struggling to endow computers with it.
What kind of students are we raising when music is seen as a “frill?” The decision to drastically cut music education is a misguided policy.
What we regard today as scientific evidence can trace its roots back to the ancient art of persuasion.
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