Comment by throwaway27448
6 hours ago
> Higher order thinking is more important and rare.
Is it?
> In lieu of intentional higher order thinking, simply working backward from your customer on a regular basis will generally accomplish the same outcomes.
And here I thought we were discussing something important!
> Higher order thinking is more important and rare.
I was just talking with a friend the other day about how many problems and issues would be solved if people were more conditioned to asking, "...and then what?"
This is a classic for the people who dream of interstellar travel. Okay, you figure out the problems (good luck) and after some 40-400 years land on some dead rock in the Alpha Centauri system. Congratulations! Now what?
And then you start colonizing? You take the supplies out of the generation ship you took to get there and then build housing and then farms. You build up industry and have lives until there's civilization and you can send messages back to Earth to share what life is like on Alpha Centauri. You and your children make art and music about your new planet, same as people did on the old one.