"Conan! What are postrats?"https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1226519180863606784?s=20 …
This brings me back to my recurring issue: I don't see why more expansive practices for introspection aren't necessarily rational, so I don't currently see the point of the distinction. My suspicion is that it's mostly semantics...
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... but because it's been framed as intertribal conflict it seems like a bigger deal than it is. Which is a shame, because if there are tools and practices that come from the "other side," you make it harder for yourself to accept them...
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...In particular, I think the language of 'levels' doesn't help. Telling me you have a new technique or outlook intrigues me, telling me that me or my group is a lower level of intelligence or emotional development is going to lose any sympathy I have! Politics, mind-killer, etc.
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Yeah! I could define 'rationality' to include all the ways of thinking that help me get what I want (including meditation, contextualization, systems thinking...) but if the word gets too big, it becomes less useful.
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The distinction between rationality vs meta-rationality feels helpful for me to cleave the concepts in thing-space - the systematic ways of thinking I learned from LessWrong/CFAR, vs the meta-skill the helps me use that and other toolkits in context.
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