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Ali Almossawi
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Ali Almossawi writes The Critical Thinker, a personal blog at almossawi.substack.com about philosophy and productivity. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for its essay on whether slowness is a virtue. The one comment discusses the logic of 'slow implies not smart' and the modus tollens fallacy, without judging the post.
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What Hacker News says?
I could understand that, as we are inclined to hold this for true: "slow -> not smart". What we do know is "not smart -> slow", because if you are dumb, you will be (infinitely) slow to answer correctly. But note this might indicate that the first proposition is a common logical fallacy where the modus tollens is applied incorrectly. The slow but brilliant thinker wouldn't perhaps show up for solving a hard and nove…
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