Last night I tried to describe the rationalist community to a friend who had never heard of it. I struggled, but finally settled on describing it as "A school of philosophy that arose on the internet rather than in the academy."
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Whoa, cool, hadn't heard of MBC. What are some features of an alternative approach that you think are interesting?
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I have absolutely NOT thought this through… but I’ve been luck to have been able to participate in several exceptionally productive & creative scenes. Most dramatically the MIT AI Lab and Xerox PARC in the 1980s. So I think in terms of prototypes rather than principles…
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the influence of BMC is vastly underestimated—they basically invented performance art! (Dewey’s role also is underestimated)
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(Busy, and have many thoughts on this, which I'll try to come back to, but: see also Bauhaus, which greatly influenced BMC & many others.)
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