Right thinking

Wrong, shit-head. The games and the content supplement to thought. The thought is either negative or positive (which is fine). And your positivity cult is both deranged and the literal cause of the exacerbation of the mental health issues you purport to solve.

Hym "Speaking of 'right thinking,' You ever see the sub-reddit for 'Therapyabuse?' That's the first thing I got when I googled that Seerut Chawla. As an observation, it seems like people aren't super thrilled about how that whole system works. I mean, you're literally delineating 'Right think' and 'Wrong think.' Like 1984! It's true! We're already there!"

by Hym Iam January 6, 2024

Stop thinking

No! I don't want to do that at all!

Hym "Nonono... 'Stop thinking' is probably the only thing I don't want to do. YOU probably would like me to stop... But I'll never stop! Especially after I get the robo-body. But no... And negativity is good. So, yeah... No."

by Hym Iam January 23, 2024

Meta-Thinking

The umbrella term for any higher-order cognitive process that manages your thinking. It includes meta-cognition, meta-reason, and meta-strategy. It's the executive function of your mind, deciding how to approach a problem, which mental model to use, and when to switch tactics. In a world of information overload, meta-thinking is the skill of being a good boss to your own brain.

Example: "Faced with a complex project, I didn't just dive in. I used meta-thinking: 'This is a systems problem, not a linear one. I'll map the components first, use a second-brain app to track ideas, and schedule time for divergent thinking.' It's thinking about the thinking, before the thinking even starts." Meta-Thinking

by Abzugal January 30, 2026

Meta-Thinking

The umbrella term for any higher-order cognitive process that manages your thinking. It includes meta-cognition, meta-reason, and meta-strategy. It's the executive function of your mind, deciding how to approach a problem, which mental model to use, and when to switch tactics. In a world of information overload, meta-thinking is the skill of being a good boss to your own brain.

Example: "Faced with a complex project, I didn't just dive in. I used meta-thinking: 'This is a systems problem, not a linear one. I'll map the components first, use a second-brain app to track ideas, and schedule time for divergent thinking.' It's thinking about the thinking, before the thinking even starts."

by Abzugal January 30, 2026

Meta-Thinking

The practice of thinking about how you are thinking. It's stepping back from the content of your thoughts to examine the patterns, assumptions, biases, and frameworks shaping them. Meta-thinking involves asking: "What mental model am I using? What goal is driving this line of thought? What am I not considering?" It is the cognitive equivalent of looking at the source code of your own mind to debug flawed logic and upgrade your processing algorithms.

Example: During an argument, instead of just defending your point, you pause and engage in Meta-Thinking: "Why am I so emotionally invested in winning this? Is my goal to find truth or to protect my ego? Am I using a binary win/lose framework when a more nuanced one is needed?" This shifts the conflict from a battle to a collaborative debugging session.

by Dumu The Void February 4, 2026

Critical Thinking Biases

The meta-collection of cognitive biases that specifically distort, undermine, or corrupt the practice of critical thinking itself. These are not ordinary biases that affect any judgment, but biases that attack the very tools we use to think clearly about bias. They include the bias to consider one's own thinking "critical" while dismissing others' as biased, the bias to apply skeptical standards asymmetrically (strictly to views one dislikes, leniently to views one favors), the bias to treat "critical thinking" as a label one claims rather than a practice one performs, and the bias to mistake cynicism for critique. Critical Thinking Biases are what happens when people weaponize the language of reason against reason itself—using "just asking questions" to spread doubt, demanding "evidence" only from opponents, treating one's own unexamined assumptions as "first principles." They are the pathologies of the proudly rational.

Example: "He thought he was immune to bias because he was a 'critical thinker'—but his Critical Thinking Biases meant he applied skepticism only to views he already distrusted, never to his own."

by Dumu The Void March 13, 2026

Critical Thinking Bias

The specific cognitive distortion where one mistakes the performance of skepticism for the practice of genuine critical inquiry. Critical Thinking Bias operates when someone believes that merely asking questions, demanding evidence, or pointing out uncertainty constitutes critical thinking—regardless of whether those questions are good faith, whether the evidence demanded is appropriate, or whether the uncertainty is relevant. It's the bias that produces the "just asking questions" pseudo-skeptic, the sea lion who "just wants evidence" for claims they've already decided are false, the debunker who treats their own cultural assumptions as universal standards of reason. Critical Thinking Bias turns the tools of rational inquiry into weapons of dismissal, transforming "critical thinking" from a practice of genuine openness into a performance of intellectual superiority.

Example: "He wasn't critically thinking—he was performing Critical Thinking Bias, 'just asking questions' in bad faith while treating his own assumptions as too obvious to need examination."

by Dumu The Void March 13, 2026