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Unexpected discovery: Keith Stanovich has a chapter on “metarationality” in his 2010 “Decision Making” book. He uses the word to mean evaluating preferences in a formal decision-theoretic framework. Which is important, and consistent with my use, but a much narrower conception.pic.twitter.com/0BOnWesFH5
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Much of my explanation of how and why rationality works (the middle part of the book) is a simplified presentation of ethnomethodological concepts and findings in easier language.
It’s hip! You need to be able to say “ethnomethodology” confidently
https://meaningness.com/eggplant/ethnomethodological-flip …pic.twitter.com/aGLORZV4zb
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The part of your brain that tries to explain everything in terms of wooden spoons. https://meaningness.com/eggplant/cognitive-science …pic.twitter.com/RRnuOsd2KO
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Not sure I understand? I take CR as boiling down to “the important thing is solving problems, which you do by finding a better way of dealing with them”; but that’s not really very helpful. And also, it isn’t even true:pic.twitter.com/rCdKvOMfgP
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Here’s a more detailed version of that critique of critical rationalism, suggesting we need a better theory :)pic.twitter.com/HCChsmUOqS
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Philosophy is bunk. Pretty much. https://meaningness.com/eggplant/rationalism#philosophy …pic.twitter.com/KVv66XBtOb
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Research communities should take responsibility for revising their epistemic norms. Psychology has developed a scenius—a creative subcultural ferment that is collaboratively rethinking fundamental assumptions. Yay! The
@fourbeerspod is a great window into the scene.pic.twitter.com/ZiEzdzEaif
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This can be fixed! It will take serious rethinking of how science is done, and how and why it works. Sciences must continually reflect on whether their current approach/research program is genuinely productive, or meaningless mechanical paper-generation. https://meaningness.com/metablog/upgrade-your-cargo-cult …pic.twitter.com/Q1AERSXSu8
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In addition to the replication crisis, we have a generalization crisis (per the paper of
@talyarkoni which@fourbeerspod discussed). Probably this is as pervasive across sciences, and as misleading, as "most published findings are false." https://psyarxiv.com/jqw35 pic.twitter.com/ymX5RGgvLe
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Research programs consider what technical results *mean*, not just whether they are true. That’s the most interesting and satisfying work, for me personally. And as the
@fourbeerspod guys say, they went into psychology to have Big Ideas, not to test tiny truths.pic.twitter.com/OqpxG6X45q
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A dishwasher! You invented a dishwasher! Very nice! Now PLEASE stop suggesting household robots are imminent! https://meaningness.com/metablog/artificial-intelligence-progress …pic.twitter.com/01kiTYIaqc
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Wild claims for AI that do not follow from an experiment are the one thing that trigger me into irrational sputtering hostility on twitter.
@fourbeerspod episode helped me understand why I get so annoyed by “AlphaGo models human intuition.” https://meaningness.com/metablog/artificial-intelligence-progress …pic.twitter.com/SH5DiRL5dS
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Thanks! This has been on my shortlist for a while. Looks to be an excellent corrective. The approach he advocates is probably not currently suitable for soc psych, although cog psych does use multi-level models of this sort:pic.twitter.com/qCui9egChU
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Yes! There’s actually good empirical support for this (some cited in my thing)pic.twitter.com/PRzq4FsE1I
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Yes, I agree strongly. Writing the “countercultures” chapter was for me in part a personal exercise in understanding where Evangelical conservatives were coming from, and sympathizing with their pov (despite being “on the other side” on most issues).pic.twitter.com/cQSQbI4K5k
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Particularly this bit toward the end. I suggest it would be helpful for participants to admit that there’s a mixture of substantive conflicts and symbolic ones. Substantive ones actually matter and are often amenable to pragmatic compromises or win-win strategies.pic.twitter.com/ZrOHPcYSJw
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Twitter alts as the enabling technology for integrating atomized selves into fluidity. Insights from
@aaronzlewis https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/23/being-your-selves-identity-rd-on-alt-twitter/ …pic.twitter.com/PgrQcCDWd7
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