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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. Mark ( 🧘 🧪 🧙‍♂️ 💩 ❤️)‏ @meditationstuff May 6
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      y/n? 1. The LessWrong/etc. account of symbols/concepts/reality doesn’t say where the concepts/ontology come from. 2. Where the concepts/ontology come from is the only hard or interesting part. [...] N. Therefore, the LW account is not just wrong but completely wrong and also bad.

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    2. Lucy Keer‏ @drossbucket May 6
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      Yep basically agree with 1 and 2 - figuring out axes for your clusterspace is the hard part. Dunno about completely wrong but certainly very limited if it has little to say about the hard part!

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    3. Mark ( 🧘 🧪 🧙‍♂️ 💩 ❤️)‏ @meditationstuff May 6
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      Ok. And/but it seems that people are having at least the experience of getting tremendous *epistemological*-feeling *usefulness* out of being exposed to the map/territory distinction, and I think we need an explanation for that? Seems more than any-port-in-storm or sociological.

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 6
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      My theory (explained upthread) is that this does genuinely dramatically simplify, and thereby clarify, your thinking.

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 6
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      Unfortunately, it does that only by making most of the complexity of real-world representation invisible. Which means you are frequently wrong, and don’t have the necessary tools to debug when your wrongness collides with reality.

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    6. Mark ( 🧘 🧪 🧙‍♂️ 💩 ❤️)‏ @meditationstuff May 6
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      Replying to @Meaningness @drossbucket and

      If not too socially awkward, do you have a sense of where LW’ers get stuck on real-world problems? Speaking extremely generally, where “they” are not “rigid” (to my mind) their Qs & As for many real-world topics seem very good. “Explicit abstract contradictions” seems wrong crit.

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 6
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      Yeah, sorry, I’m not going to go there for that, socially awkward

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    8. Mark ( 🧘 🧪 🧙‍♂️ 💩 ❤️)‏ @meditationstuff May 6
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      Replying to @Meaningness @drossbucket and

      Ok. I think the conversation might be conflating conceptually confused, locally effective, and globally effective. Thank you for engaging above.

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    9. Mark ( 🧘 🧪 🧙‍♂️ 💩 ❤️)‏ @meditationstuff May 6
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      I think there may be something missing about actual LW’er cognition-in-the-wild versus what they write or say. (Assuming an imagined straw LW’er...)

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    10. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 6
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      Replying to @meditationstuff @drossbucket and

      I’m sure that’s true! Let me emphasize again that I am NOT interested in criticizing LW or EY specifically. I like both of them. Which is why I won’t publicly comment on their dysfunction as you asked me to (I think?).

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 6
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      Somehow they sorta think they invented rationalism, which has been around for 2600 years. That’s the target of my critique. The LW community has not added anything novel to it afaik, so I don’t find it intellectually significant. Lots of smart interesting well-meaning people tho!

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        1. Mark ( 🧘 🧪 🧙‍♂️ 💩 ❤️)‏ @meditationstuff May 6
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          Ok, immediately above is helpful.

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