I postponed reading Dune for years. Its impact on me was so great I can't but wonder how I would have been different had I read it when younger.
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Can you elaborate on how/why? I read Dune when I was like, 12, and liked it a lot, but my recollection-impression of it is as more mystical than rationalist.
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I'd call it transhumanist more easily than rationalist, but wrt rationality Dune is dominated by decisions in situations of great peril. Learning and deciding is key for most major characters.
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What is the post 2010 great?
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Probably HPMOR or something
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I hope that someday you will read some of my ideas and dislike them with a curious intensity :)https://multisenserealism.com/2017/10/25/this-is-not-a-pipe-but-it-is-a-triangle/ …
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Discworld is awesome. I've got a paper in Discworld and Philosophy discussing how Sam Vimes embodies the epistemic values of common sense philosophy. Pratchett has the most accurate picture of human nature I've ever seen in literature.
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I would argue that "Stranger in a Strange Land" might even edge out Dune (though the latter is a personal favorite).
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Loved Dune, you make me want to read Discworld!
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I remember empathing Paul's experience of prescience, started experiencing my expected futures with almost as much immediacy as the present
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What is the post 2010 great?
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HPMOR did start in 2010...
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Atlas Shrugged
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If Atlas Shrugged is rationalism, I choose communism. Openly political metaphors are very plus minus.
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If Atlas Shrugged is reason, I choose the most murderous ideology of the twentieth century. Okay.
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See? Net negative to the forces of reason. You cannot reason spite out of human nature. Indeed, spite is rational often enough that it would be irrational to try.
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...yeah. I don't think you could reach rationality from where you are, even with a supersonic jet. These answers are so completely divorced from reason, context etc. as to qualify as insanity.
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Hmmm, and strangely I believe that listening to Ayn Rand uncritically is a form of insanity. Perhaps her attempt to improve the thought processes of her readers has failed from any possible point of view.
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Again, blind assertion presented without evidence. You're halucinating here.
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