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  • The Complete Guide to Effective Note-Making in Roam Research

    The Complete Guide to Effective Note-Making in Roam Research

    1) how to craft your Zettelkasten of atomic notes, 2) actually master books and write essays
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    Maarten van Doorn
    Aug 1, 2021
    Who’s afraid of Cambridge Analytica?

    Who’s afraid of Cambridge Analytica?

    Cunning marketers can predict and manipulate our behaviour. Facebook knows your soul. Google is hacking your brain.
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    Maarten van Doorn
    Jun 21, 2021
    Reasons Why Post-truth Claims Are Plausible, and Evidence That They Are Not true

    Reasons Why Post-truth Claims Are Plausible, and Evidence That They...

    Algorithms and the new (dis)information landscape: disaster afoot or unjustified epistemic panic?
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    Maarten van Doorn
    Apr 30, 2021
    The Stakes Are High, Don’t Shun Contrarians!

    The Stakes Are High, Don’t Shun Contrarians!

    Why enforced intellectual conformism hurts truth-finding
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    Maarten van Doorn
    Sep 24, 2020
    Worse, but More Moral, So Better?

    Worse, but More Moral, So Better?

    Talking morals and not consequences is deceptive: we have similar values. So: how much do we really want people to participate in politics?
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    Maarten van Doorn
    Aug 25, 2020
    What I Can’t Believe

    What I Can’t Believe

    Privilege, standpoint epistemology and lived experiences: why one may claim a statement is knowledge only if it can be debunked in…
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    Maarten van Doorn
    Aug 10, 2020
    Truth as a Power Game

    Truth as a Power Game

    Introducing the renewed blog
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    Maarten van Doorn
    Aug 4, 2020
    Truth in the Post-Truth Era: It’s Not That Complicated

    Truth in the Post-Truth Era: It’s Not That Complicated

    Why you don’t need to worry about lying politicians, fake news, and filter bubbles
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    Maarten van Doorn
    Dec 12, 2019
    Reality-Making: The Art of Distinguishing Truth from Falsehood

    Reality-Making: The Art of Distinguishing Truth from Falsehood

    Understanding the constitution of knowledge (and the new attacks on it)
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    Maarten van Doorn
    Nov 27, 2019
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