> Diaries can be dangerous. They are a perfect tool for narrowing your thinking. What you want is repeated over and ver, to the point that you do not feel that you want it anymore but are just saying so.
Indeed. It's sort of like the danger of writing only for your peers and thus subscribing to their groupthink (a danger especially present on sites like this one), but even more so: you're writing for a peer-group of one. You'll never get an alternate opinion thrown at you that can disrupt you from going down a stupid path, when you're making that journey alone.
However, that can be useful in some situations: unlike evolution, where every complex adaptation has to be made up of simpler adaptations that were each successful on their own, we can refine thoughts in textual meditation that would seem stupid if presented to others in their prototypical forms: we can climb down the fitness landscape to explore.
Indeed. It's sort of like the danger of writing only for your peers and thus subscribing to their groupthink (a danger especially present on sites like this one), but even more so: you're writing for a peer-group of one. You'll never get an alternate opinion thrown at you that can disrupt you from going down a stupid path, when you're making that journey alone.
However, that can be useful in some situations: unlike evolution, where every complex adaptation has to be made up of simpler adaptations that were each successful on their own, we can refine thoughts in textual meditation that would seem stupid if presented to others in their prototypical forms: we can climb down the fitness landscape to explore.