There is a distinction to be made between “thinking alike things” and “thinking in alike ways”. Because the world is crazy and most people don’t even know there are ways of thinking (and those that do most often profess that everything is subjective), any statement “think alike” commonly is interpreted to mean “think alike things”, which is truly a good indicator of scarcity of thought in the common case.
(LessWrong is a near-complete inversion; where all/most thinking alike is strong evidence that a huge amount of thought has been happening)
The fact that the above comment got a lot of upvotes (i.e, widespread approval) is ironic.
There is a distinction to be made between “thinking alike things” and “thinking in alike ways”. Because the world is crazy and most people don’t even know there are ways of thinking (and those that do most often profess that everything is subjective), any statement “think alike” commonly is interpreted to mean “think alike things”, which is truly a good indicator of scarcity of thought in the common case.
(LessWrong is a near-complete inversion; where all/most thinking alike is strong evidence that a huge amount of thought has been happening)
True and well thought out.