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

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 21 Jun 2018
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      The social imperative was for science to reliably turn out facts, on the model of government procurement. Reliable production requires routinization and quality control. Fallible human judgement must be eliminated, so that the process becomes mindless and thus controllable.

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 21 Jun 2018
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      Science advocates couldn’t admit “we have no idea how or why science works, but it seems money well spent.” So science adopted statistical methods originally developed for industrial QC and for social measurement, and pretended that mindless application would turn out Truth.

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 21 Jun 2018
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      There is no mindless path to truth. The replication crisis has multiple roots, but the rationalist assumption that statistics, applied by rote, can somehow tell you what’s true (with a specified probability) may be the deepest.

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    4. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 21 Jun 2018
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      That bugbear might turn out to be a straw man. The replication crisis disproportionately affects mindful (meaning oriented) approaches to truth, from Marshmallow to Milgram experiment. Our addiction to meaning biases us.

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    5. jonathanstray‏ @jonathanstray 21 Jun 2018
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      There's something to that. Replication seems worst where there is most scope for interpretation -- at that point, statistical methods are simply used as justification, covering for weak methods elsewhere.

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    6. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 21 Jun 2018
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      The problem might be that @Meaningness is unduly biased against rationalism. He has convinced himself that he has a discovered a deeper, metarational tool that lets him better intuit the noumenon amid the general nebulosity of his logically broken universe.

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    7. jonathanstray‏ @jonathanstray 21 Jun 2018
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      I read him to be staunchly pro-rational. It's just that rationalism can't deliver what it claims, at least not without some other type of reasoning that is much less formalizable. And he's far from the first to notice that.

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    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 21 Jun 2018
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      Yes, that :)

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    9. jonathanstray‏ @jonathanstray 21 Jun 2018
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      Replying to @Meaningness @Plinz @everytstudies

      Ok but I would also pay to see David and Eliezer in a cage fight.

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    10. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 21 Jun 2018
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      I dunno 🤷‍♂️ We tried a few weeks ago, but seem not to be able to understand each other’s main point. Peculiar.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 21 Jun 2018
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      I expect him to argue as a typical rationalist, but he doesn’t. He’s got an unusual take that I haven’t grokked. He expects me to be a typical anti-rationalist, which I’m not.

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        2. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 21 Jun 2018
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          No, you are not. I think that when you decided that minds cannot be rationally explained, your rational universe blew up, so you retreated and tried to fix a buddhist universe instead?

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        3. jonathanstray‏ @jonathanstray 21 Jun 2018
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          Hmm, I also think that's a mischaracterization of David's position. But I'll let him answer, if he chooses. Or you could read his voluminous writing on the subject :P

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