"Postmodernism for rationalists" by @rwuio — exceptionally clear explanation! https://palegreendot.net/assets/2017-10-09/postmodernism_for_rationalists.pdf … 
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Shorter, less charitably: Language games can be justified by arguments which rely on language games.
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Pomo does mostly degenerate into language games. But the most valuable insights have nothing to do with language; rather, ontology.
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Could you name one?
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Replying to @chairbender @Meaningness and
1. I didn't seeing anything about pomo in particular. 2. Yudkowsky has been making these points for a decade. (E.g. http://lesswrong.com/lw/nn/neural_categories/ …)
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There’s a long thread about how “meta-rationality” relates to that post of EY’s, and others, starting athttps://meaningness.com/fluidity-preview/comments#comment-1738 …
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Why do you keep making strong claims about what rationalists/LW believe when by your own admission you're not familiar with many core texts?
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Replying to @GrumplessGrinch @chairbender and
Which particular claim(s) do you object to? (N.b. also by “rationalists” I do not specifically mean the LW-associated community, although >
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Replying to @Meaningness @chairbender and
E.g. this comment ignores the huge amount of literature on LW about the tension between epistemic and instrumental rationality.pic.twitter.com/iR22lGDJsF
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Not at all what I meant, although I can see how this is a natural misunderstanding of what I said.
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Replying to @Meaningness @GrumplessGrinch and
I probably can’t clarify what I did mean in anything shorter than the 100+ page book (which is why I am writing it!)
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