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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I suspect that that orange/green/yellow thing hints at an answer: deconversion narratives talk about how you discovered that X is totally false. But moving on to yellow doesn't feel like totally renouncing orange; it feels like building a more sophisticated version of it.
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Going from a child to an adult doesn't feel like renouncing the understanding of the world that you had as a child, even if much of your old understanding was wrong. It just feels like your understanding gradually getting better.
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(this is why I also dislike the whole rationality vs. meta-rationality terminology: it's creating an artificial distinction and a tribal narrative, when IMO there's just a continuous refinement and increasing sophistication of the art of rationality)
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Got to go to work, but... I like the river analogy here: https://vividness.live/2015/10/12/developing-ethical-social-and-cognitive-competence/#comment-7352 … Overall continuous process but in sections the way forward is counterintuitive so people pile up. A sharp distinction doesn't make sense to me either, but something like this does.pic.twitter.com/xS7TtuVWlA
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Yes, in some ways the “stages” presentation is misleading, and I seriously considered dropping it in the Cofounders piece. I emphasized gradualness there.
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But, there IS a sharp bend in the river. The vector from 4 to 5 is points in a completely different direction from the vector from 3 to 4 (and both of those are reasonably straight once you are heading in the right direction).
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I think some have commented that 4 comes much easier and more natural than 3 for some people (me included), which I also think complicates things. Any thoughts on that?
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