Yes, very much that. I just suspect you're being coy when making blanket statements like the OP that you know requires a bucketload of interpretation to evaluate and I sorta want to call you out on it 
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Ah… what would be a better approach, do you think?
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Depends on what you're trying to do exactly, doesn't it? I think most people confronted with the assertion that the world doesn't make sense would take the wrong message from it. I did when I first read your stuff.
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Ah, that’s interesting. What’s the wrong message, and how can I communicate the right one more effectively, or prevent the misunderstanding?
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In my mind the wrong message would be that there is no reality out there and it's all in our minds, or that all knowledge is completely subjective (everything equally valid) and other such boogeymen.
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Yes, this is an expositional problem. There’s 200 years of people (Romantics) saying rationalism is wrong for reasons X. I explicitly reject that analysis, and say rationalism is wrong for reasons Y, which are unfamiliar to rationalists (although not unique to me).
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I need to prevent the misunderstanding that I’m just reiterating the tired wrong arguments X. The Eggplant attempts that by devoting the introduction to saying how great rationality is, and how it’s under threat, and that strengthening it is critical. Will that be enough?
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There are a few issues as far as I'm concerned. Your nonstandard use of "rationality" to mean formal, strictly systematic reasoning threw me off for quite a while. I assume this has to do with your background in AI? I'd wager it's not what most people would mean by the word.
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Calling things "wrong" is also hazardous. There's quite a big difference between how Newtonian mechanics is wrong and how astrology is wrong and talking as if the first is like the second makes one sound like a kook.
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Since Kegan stage 5 tends to sound like stage 3 it's vital to be clear that it's not. The lessons of 4 aren't to be rejected (not wrong) but to be expanded into new dimensions.
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Right… I hope the Eggplant book can make that extremely clear. I’ll do my best, anyway! Your feedback is very helpful… I will try to persuade you to read a draft when the book gets ready enough to ask for comments!
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Glad to help. I do think what you're saying is extremely valuable but I tend to get hung up on certain things. It seems mostly a matter of certain issues looming very large for you in a way I don't find intuitive. Again something I'm assuming has to do with experience w/ AI work.
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