This event profoundly shaped our world, but it has never been explained clearly, afaik. My eggplant book tries; but only relatively briefly (~50 pages) because it’s just background to my actual topics. Wish I could recommend a good source instead.https://twitter.com/everytstudies/status/1108008134839320579 …
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Most ideologies spawn “deconversion narratives,” from believers who realized the ism was false and left. Why are there so few rationalist deconversion narratives? Maybe postrational nihilism is so dreary that almost no one has the energy for it. Mine: https://meaningness.com/metablog/ken-wilber-boomeritis-artificial-intelligence …pic.twitter.com/X0X41jHoCG
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Three years ago, I complained that writing up exactly what’s wrong with rationalism would be a drag, though a necessary public service. That part of The Eggplant is complete. Until I explain the better alternative, it’s worse than useless though. https://meaningness.com/metablog/ken-wilber-boomeritis-artificial-intelligence …pic.twitter.com/fsLt5DumBA
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Table of contents from the part of the Eggplant book explaining why rationalism can’t work. As you can see, I was only able to complete it by including a lot of whimsical examples to amuse myself.pic.twitter.com/4Wq20swOJK
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What's the plan with the book at this point David? Is it likely to get turned into a print version one day? Are you planning to publish more pages of it online?
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Hi Matthew, have been meaning to contact you to say how sorry I was to hear about your health issue, and glad that you are on the mend. Also that I’ve been enjoying the recent podcasts;
@_awbery_ and I got halfway through Ann G’s yesterday, and it’s great!2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
The Eggplant has been mostly backburnered for more than a year due to lack of time. It needs uninterrupted chunks of attention that I can’t give it currently. I certainly hope to finish it, but I don’t know when I’ll be freed up enough to do so.
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How can we help you finish it?
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