A couple of thoughts on the post rat sentiment of "who cares about truth, I just want to thrive". On its face there's nothing wrong with refusing to have opinions on things and focusing on personal growth and overcoming trauma and all that stuff. BUT...
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First, having opinions about things like COVID, technology, economics, etc opens you up to attack but also gives you credibility. If you have many great insights on personal healing and development, surely you can stick your neck out on something externally verifiable.
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Many post-rats do this, but some refuse on principle. The real world is out there, and a thriving person should be able to face it and understand it instead of talking only about friends and meditation and crying and video games. I love these topics myself, but not exclusively!
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And from the other side: thriving ultimately necessitates acquiring true models of the world. Models of psychology, physiology, community, culture, etc. Models that inevitably become entangled in external things because reality is one and all true things connect.
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Replying to @yashkaf
It sounds like what you are seeing may be this, which I’ve noticed increasingly as a concern recently:pic.twitter.com/GBZd7sgid4
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As as developmental phase, this is welcome progress from nihilistic depression; the risk would be getting stuck there.
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I really liked that post. I'm very on-board with meta-rationality except that I just call it "rationality". Probably because I never went through any nihilistic depression stage wrt understanding the world. And as for meaning, it was CFAR training that helped me think about that.pic.twitter.com/jr7zmefJWP
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But I'm not sure this dual science/mysticism state is what's going on with the post rats I talk about. It's more of a social circle where you get punished for engaging with external-world questions and rewarded for talking about your feelings and your friends.
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Ah… maybe I don’t know those people, or interact with them in the way you do.
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