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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 14 May 2019
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      I would rather look forward than back—although I do read a lot of history of science to inform my attempts to imagine better futures.

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 May 2019
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      “Meta-rationality” means examining how we’re using rationality (including science) in context, not taking its claims about itself at face value, figuring how it relates to concrete reality, where and when and how and why it works or doesn’t, and figuring out how to do it better.

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 May 2019
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      One of Kuhn’s main points is that when rationality breaks down, you have to get meta-rational (and, when science is functioning correctly, scientists observably do exactly that).

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 May 2019
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      Now we have not just a localized breakdown, but a pervasive science-wide one (and, indeed, a society/culture/psychology wide one, but that’s another story). We have to step back and examine science overall as a phenomenon and ask when and how and why it work or doesn’t.

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 May 2019
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      Charlton does that, and gets mostly right answers. Science management has treated it as industrial assembly-line production of knowledge-units as ordered by the state. The Politburo’s Five Year Plan has mandated 23% more medical research papers by 2020! Glorious, comrade!

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 May 2019
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      We do have *some* knowledge of what worked in postmodernity. Skunkworks can work. Xerox PARC was an extraordinarily postmodern institution, and well, hello THE WHOLE TECH INDUSTRY. Why has no one replicated that? Lack of courage? Was PARC just a unique, unrepeatable accident?

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      Or is it that postmodernity is over, and the cultural conditions that made PARC possible no longer exist? Is metamodernity (closely related to meta-rationality) actually a happening thing? Can we imagine meta-rational / metamodern science institutions? (Hint: yes)

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    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 May 2019
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      Big question: can existing institutions be reformed drastically enough to retain net positive value, or are they beyond saving? I’m agnostic about that. I’m boosting the chorus of voices yelling HEY LOOK SCIENCE IS TOTALLY FUCKED, because I still hope for fixes.

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 May 2019
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      OTOH, it’s possible that public awareness of dysfunction may lead to political destruction of the existing institutions before we have anything to replace them with. This scares me a lot. Makes it all the more urgent to get the alternatives up and running soon!

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    10. Gary Basin  💡‏ @garybasin 14 May 2019
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      Replace these evil scientists with some friendly neighborhood shaman. What could go wrong

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      More likely with activists.

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