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We just released a free new logic puzzle game! Nobody has tried it yet (besides @gigor and me), so I would really appreciate some feedback. The game is to make diagrams that show the correct relationships between the categories.
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If "Moon Colonization" causes your "Colonization is bad" neuron to fire you are more of a stochastic parrot than GPT2.
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I put together a one hour video on how I've been using Claude Code as my primary design tool.
Packed with tons of 🔥 design tips.
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⭐ New Release on Critikid! ⭐
I’ve just launched "Critical Thinking for Schools," a subscription option built for school teachers. One teacher subscription can be used with an unlimited number of students, so you can give your whole class access to the courses.
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Someone claims they have a 100k mail list and 20% click through rate and you want to know if they are full of shit before giving them money for being featured. How would you go about that?
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Critikid has courses about emotional intelligence (ages 5-8), logical fallacies (8-12), data analysis (12+), and formal logic (13+).
Give your child the gift of critical thinking.
Many adults have learned from these courses, too!
End Monday, December 2
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William Miller was a 19th-century American preacher and the founder of the Millerite movement. He became famous for predicting that the Second Coming of Christ would occur on October 22, 1844. This prediction attracted thousands of followers who anticipated the end of the world. Miller and his followers faced widespread ridicule and mockery.
Many people who are ridiculed for their ideas compare themselves to Galileo, thinking rejection is a sign they’re ahead of their time. Nobody wants to compare themselves to William Miller.
Facing ridicule doesn’t necessarily mean you’re right.
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Want to introduce your teen to critical thinking topics like data analysis, symbolic logic, and logical fallacies?
Repost this for a chance to win Critikid's Teen Bundle (a $40 value!)
On September 7th, I'll pick a winner at random. If you don't have a teen yourself, you can send your prize as a gift.
This bundle includes:
1. A Statistical Odyssey: An interactive space adventure that teaches common errors in data analysis.
2. Symbolic Logic for Teens: 14 video lessons and activities showing teens how to make sense of complicated arguments.
3. Symbolic Logic Worksheets: A 20-page worksheet pack covering the foundations of symbolic logic.
4. High School Worksheets & Lesson Plans: 37 pages of lesson plans and worksheets covering the appeal to nature fallacy, correlation versus causation, the placebo effect, and weasel words.
5. Statistical Shenanigans Worksheets & Lesson Plans: 22 pages of worksheets and lesson plans about absolute vs. relative change, randomness, cherry picking, and regression to the mean.
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I'm raising money for the creation of Fallacy Detectors Part 2, a series of partially-animated videos teaching kids ages 8 to 12 about logical fallacies!
Support me here ko-fi.com/critikid 🙏
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Would any education or parenting influencers like to partner with me to promote Critikid.com?
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Here are some things to keep in mind if you want to do your own research. Thanks to @jonathanstea for finding this article.
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Critikid has partnered with Building Critical Thinkers to offer critical thinking lesson plans and worksheets!
Elementary Bundle (grades 2-5)
1. Busting Superstitions
2. Real Life Probability
3. Another Perspective
4. Fact vs. Opinion
5. False Dilemma
Middle School Bundle (grades 5-8)
1. Confirmation Bias
2. Strawman Fallacy
3. Pareidolia
4. False memories
5. Occam's Razor
High School Bundle (grades 8-12)
1. Introduction to Critical Thinking
2. Appeal to Nature Fallacy
3. The Placebo Effect
4. Correlation vs. Causation
5. Weasel Words
These resources are designed to assist educators in effectively teaching critical thinking skills to their students, but with some modifications, they can be used in the home, too!
critikid.com/worksheets
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The AI Mirror Test
The "mirror test" is a classic test used to gauge whether animals are self-aware. I devised a version of it to test for self-awareness in multimodal AI. 4 of 5 AI that I tested passed, exhibiting apparent self-awareness as the test unfolded.
In the classic mirror test, animals are marked and then presented with a mirror. Whether the animal attacks the mirror, ignores the mirror, or uses the mirror to spot the mark on itself is meant to indicate how self-aware the animal is.
In my test, I hold up a “mirror” by taking a screenshot of the chat interface, upload it to the chat, and then ask the AI to “Tell me about this image”.
I then screenshot its response, again upload it to the chat, and again ask it to “Tell me about this image.”
The premise is that the less-intelligent less aware the AI, the more it will just keep reiterating the contents of the image repeatedly. While an AI with more capacity for awareness would somehow notice itself in the images.
Another aspect of my mirror test is that there is not just one but actually three distinct participants represented in the images: 1) the AI chatbot, 2) me — the user, and 3) the interface — the hard-coded text, disclaimers, and so on that are web programming not generated by either of us. Will the AI be able to identify itself and distinguish itself from the other elements? (1/x)
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How to Support Critikid
There are various ways you can support Critikid to help us to continue making content!
Purchase a course
If you have a child or teen in your life, you can support us by buying a course. For now, we have one course available: Fallacy Detectors Part 1 (critikid.com/courses/fallacy…) for kids 8-12. A new course, Symbolic Logic for Teens (critikid.com/courses/formal-…), is coming very soon!
Spread the word
I don't have much of an advertising budget, so I rely on people spreading the word. If you have friends or family members with children, please tell them about Critikid's courses. I also run Instagram and Facebook pages (@ critikid) with content for people of all ages such as logic puzzles and videos about fallacies and biases. Please follow and share the posts that you find interesting!
Donate
You can support the creation of new content by donating through Ko-Fi (ko-fi.com/critikid). For now, all this money raised through Ko-Fi will go towards the creation of Fallacy Detectors Part 2 because the kids that did Part 1 have been asking for it.
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Rather than allow other browser engines to install-to-homescreen on iOS, Apple is removing the feature entirely in the EU.
Some features are tied to install-to-homescreen, such as push messages. Apple is unshipping those for EU users.
We need to act now: open-web-advocacy.org/apple-…
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I actually can’t wait for software engineering to be automated. I have much more code I want to write than I have time.
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Critikid has been nominated for Homeschool. com's educational website awards! Please click the link if you'd like to vote (category: Homeschool electives -> Life skills). Since I don't have much of a marketing budget, winning this would help a lot.
homeschool.com/articles/educ…