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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. Lulie‏ @reasonisfun 6 Apr 2019
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      Lulie Retweeted michael vassar

      "Cultivated critically rational thought" isn't needed to have a good life. People don't need to be Critical Rationalism Geeks or philosophers to live well, nor to get value out of CR or similar. People have problems in their life. Any bit of information could be a solution.https://twitter.com/HiFromMichaelV/status/1114243566061195267 …

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      michael vassar @HiFromMichaelV
      Resign yourself to the reality that cultivated critically rational thought is and always has been a niche interest and recognize that people manage to get by and mostly not kill one another without it, and that they are understandably frightened of it. https://twitter.com/reasonisfun/status/1114112755324391424 …
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    2. Lulie‏ @reasonisfun 6 Apr 2019
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      The natural state for humans is problem-solving. It's not that we aren't thoughtful or rational or critical enough, it's that there's 1. blocks (mental processes that turn creativity against itself), and 2. lack of knowledge (not from folly, but "no one has figured out how yet")

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    3. Lulie‏ @reasonisfun 6 Apr 2019
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      It's easier to get over blocks with a system (like a personal development system or course or therapy or philosophy etc.), because blocks themselves come from a complicated system (anti-rational memes, or blindspots, or coercion etc)...

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    4. Lulie‏ @reasonisfun 6 Apr 2019
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      But we aren't in an entirely static society anymore. People aren't entirely dominated by stasis — there's wiggle-room. Which means you don't need to grok a whole new system to improve(=/have fun). You can take things piece-meal.

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    5. Lulie‏ @reasonisfun 6 Apr 2019
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      Lulie Retweeted Lulie

      ... Hence my dislike for the term 'aspiring rationalist'. As if there's a fixed thing you can achieve if you're Good enough. It also assumes the Philosophers know what's up and can solve problems, and the normies/mops/whatever don't/can't. Anyone can!https://twitter.com/reasonisfun/status/985439111074013184 …

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      Lulie @reasonisfun
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      Every point is a boundary point. Just like you don’t need to learn existing ideas in a subject to make progress in it (your problems will be unique), similarly you don’t need to ‘learn history’ to avoid mistakes. Learning history in absence of a mistake/problem sounds pointless
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    6. Lulie‏ @reasonisfun 6 Apr 2019
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      Critical rationalism* doesn't require faithfulness of the worldview or perfection. Rather: you cannot have those things, and they're not desirable. Come take what's useful—to you—and leave the rest. It's just a bunch of ideas. (* and meta-rationalism? @meaningness)

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 6 Apr 2019
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      Yes, by and large absolute truths are rare outside math and maybe foundational physics. And it's not clear how they'd be useful in practice even if we could get them. So rationality-in-practice has to work with more-or-less truths!

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