You’re standing in the middle of a firehose. Information arrives faster than anyone can process it — news, opinions, studies, hot takes, corrections, retractions, and takes on the takes. The question isn’t whether you can keep up. You can’t. The question is whether you can think clearly despite the noise.
That’s what this site is about.
What we mean by clear thinking
Clear thinking isn’t about being smart. Plenty of smart people believe foolish things. It’s about having reliable processes — habits of mind that help you update your beliefs when the evidence changes, notice when you’re fooling yourself, and distinguish what you actually know from what you merely feel.
The rationalist tradition offers a toolkit for this. Not a set of conclusions, but a set of methods:
- Bayesian reasoning — updating beliefs proportionally to evidence
- Epistemic humility — holding beliefs with appropriate confidence
- Steel-manning — engaging with the strongest version of opposing arguments
- Identifying cruxes — finding the specific claims that would change your mind
What you’ll find here
Articles that take these ideas seriously and apply them to real questions. Not abstract philosophy for its own sake, but practical epistemology — the kind you can actually use.
More coming soon.