David Chapman

@Meaningness

Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

Joined September 2010

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  1. 14 hours ago

    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.

  2. Feb 1

    🆕 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

  3. Jan 30

    The part of your brain that tries to explain everything in terms of wooden spoons.

  4. Jan 29

    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:

  5. Jan 29
    Replying to and

    Here’s a more detailed version of that critique of critical rationalism, suggesting we need a better theory :)

  6. Jan 29
  7. Jan 27

    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 is a great window into the scene.

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  8. Jan 27

    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.

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  9. Jan 27

    In addition to the replication crisis, we have a generalization crisis (per the paper of which discussed). Probably this is as pervasive across sciences, and as misleading, as "most published findings are false."

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  10. Jan 27

    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 guys say, they went into psychology to have Big Ideas, not to test tiny truths.

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  11. Jan 27

    A dishwasher! You invented a dishwasher! Very nice! Now PLEASE stop suggesting household robots are imminent!

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  12. Jan 27

    Wild claims for AI that do not follow from an experiment are the one thing that trigger me into irrational sputtering hostility on twitter. episode helped me understand why I get so annoyed by “AlphaGo models human intuition.”

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  13. Jan 26
    Replying to and

    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:

  14. Jan 24
  15. Jan 24

    Yes! There’s actually good empirical support for this (some cited in my thing)

  16. Jan 24

    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).

  17. Jan 24
    Replying to and

    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.

  18. Jan 24

    Twitter alts as the enabling technology for integrating atomized selves into fluidity. Insights from

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  19. Jan 23
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    Me too! Also cf:

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