I like this one: * Journal your actual beliefs, without the feed influencing them Can you say more about this - examples of critical thinking tools? * Use spaced repetition to relearn forgotten critical thinking tools

paradoxically, I experience manual labor, silence, sunshine, and a dose boredom as important critical thinking tools. Strange ideas suddenly become obviously strange. Seems to powerup an anti-malware force that starts working in the depths of the mind. Meme -> touch grass. do things.

Tricky one since it has overlap with me in a different way. I do use a feed of things I follow and trust as reliable sources. Those frequently debunk other unreliable sources. If I notice they are trying to mislead me I ditch them. So on one hand you can argue thats the same thing as your describing even though I find that content regardless of the algorythm trying to nude me to a different direction. It still has confirmation bias at the source which I know and was aware off but if I were not to i'd get lied to. For example if I remove my establishment skeptical bias and my beliefs then I could easily be mislead by the government propeganda. If I had removed my bias against the pandemic and that the vaccine was safe and effective 99% of sources would tell me its good to take. So to me its more nuanced, what I do is pit sources against each other. Sources who keep spreading debunked info get tossed, sources who succesfully debunk get followed. And I do invite new sources in to keep myself sharp. I'm not affraid of counter narratives to my beliefs. Is that mind virus where I got algorythmically engineered to be the way I am? Highly possible. Back in 2016 when it was still popular content first I discovered the people that helped me further define my world views after all. But it does happen to be people like that who now get algorythmically demoted or even banned. So unless the intent was to put me into the anti mainstream camp despite their massive attempts to get me to comply I doubt I am infected. So heres my counter solution. First of all, don't assume what you know is correct. Keep thinking it trough from time to time, seek out if what you believe is actually still valid if you can (I know its hard when your beliefs got nuked from the internet despite you knowing it for certain). Save sources locally that you find critical, both to challenge what you believed later but also to make sure you can spread the info when it got censored. And pit sources against each other. Good example was david pakman who I briefly had as a democrat biased source. He was hating on the fact thaf mailboxes got removed to make it harder to vote for democrats because democrats primarily vote by mail. I found that interesting. My pro trump sources also picked up on the story, and showed evidence that it wasn't because of trump but that they had been scheduled for removal for a while. Despite this days later david was still claiming the mailbox removal was related to the election. Thats when I then remove you as a source. Same thing during the pandemic, "safe and effective, and definately not a virus from a lab" meanwhile you see a ton of doctors speak out it wasn't safe, a ton of evidence it wasn't effective and a google maps page showing the wuhan lab of virology was across the street from the wet market. Any source then claiming otherwise without counter evidence I ditch. So ill let you be the judge. Am I actually infected? Or am I just really good at defending myself against it.

Uh oh

And the final option as part of clean up: abandon most sources of content.

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