Yeah I think this is the root of why it's hard to predict popularity - a post needs to feel almost too obvious to be worth saying to do numbers like this
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I suppose this augurs well for my current book project. The part I actually want to write is about meta-rationality but that’s <30% of the text. The rest recapitulates all the reasons rationalism failed, and then a jargon-free summary of ethnomethodology; both tiresome but needed
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I can’t understand why no one ever bothered to explain clearly why rationalism doesn’t work, although it’s been thoroughly understood since before I was born. I resent having to do work that ought to have finished in 1957. I hope I get a few million years off purgatory for this.
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Yeah, exactly. There's something about the feeling of just dragging the point you need to make out of yourself that just naturally leads to a clear, linear, explanation, in as few words as possible while still making the point clearly so you can just get the damn thing done.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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