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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 Feb 18
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      Hmm… nothing come immediately to mind, I’m afraid

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Feb 18
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      I’m sure lots was written at the time though

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    3. Kabelo Moiloa‏ @11kilobytes Feb 18
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      That's a good suggestion. What are the "cognitive distortions?" Is it something like wrong modes-of-being that are promoted by Rationalist eternalism? Or perhaps cogntivism + representationalism?

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Feb 18
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      Yes, exactly those! Plus maybe a kind of naive idealism and cluelessness about the world in general.

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    5. Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦‏ @Malcolm_Ocean Feb 18
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      Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦 Retweeted Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦

      I'm guessing a lot of this has to do with reification of the left hemisphere's world, which is baked into most paradigms but particularly loud & explicit in AI-land. Thread, which I think you'd find worth reading and I'd be interested in your thoughts on:https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1187752394702151681 …

      Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦 added,

      Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦 @Malcolm_Ocean
      Reading this post by @JanelleCShane and I'm like "oh man, our current ai bots are basically left hemispheres". > "When confused, it tends not to admit it" https://aiweirdness.com/post/175110257767/the-visual-chatbot … pic.twitter.com/wKowi16Rty
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    6. Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦‏ @Malcolm_Ocean Feb 18
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      relatedly, the traditional "laws of thought" are "laws of LHemisphere" law of identity law of non-contradiction law of excluded middle they only make sense in contextless spaces of zero nebulosity AI folks may not think literally these, but... similar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_thought#The_three_traditional_laws …

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Feb 18
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      I’m interested in McGilcrist because so many people are fans. However, everything I’ve read about the book suggests it’s a pretty standard dual-process theory. That does give some insight but is limited and well-trod. Maybe I’m missing what’s distinctive? https://meaningness.com/eggplant/cognitive-science#dual-process …pic.twitter.com/yENH8BBxm6

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    8. wizard from earthsea‏ @tr4nsmute Feb 21
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      I am trying to check my understanding here--but would it be correct to say that the problem with dual process theories is that they: 1) assume reasonableness and rationality are "modules" in the mind 2) mix up reasonableness and relevance realization system. RR maps on to...

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    9. wizard from earthsea‏ @tr4nsmute Feb 21
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      ...what Heidegger meant by "the world presented to us is already meaningful", and reasonableness and rationality are things we do--and do not necessarily correspond to specific cognitive modules.

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    10. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Feb 21
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      Yes, all those! And additionally a dual process theory has to lump together a lot of disparate things to get down to just two categories. Important distinctions are deliberately obscured to make the classification seem to work.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Feb 21
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      Example. When the LW rationalists first encountered my ranting against rationalism, they assumed I meant “emotions are important too” or “intuition is superior” or “sometimes it’s useful to believe false things” etc.

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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Feb 21
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          Which was natural because those ARE standard critiques of rationalism; but they aren’t at all what I was saying. If the 10,000 things we do that aren’t rationality are lumped together, then you can gesture at the whole lot and say “important too” which is true but vague.

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Feb 21
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          Kahneman’s Thinking Fast And Slow, a particularly simplistic dual-process story, was perhaps the most important founding text for LW. (Along with Jaynes’ Logic Of Science, which is also terrible in a different way.)

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