1/ Finally got around to reading this, a masterful summary of our state of affairs by @Meaningness ht @ryan_nayr_ https://meaningness.com/metablog/stem-fluidity-bridge …
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Cool! It does seem that explaining how quasi-religious certainty and nihilism are not the only options should be sufficient.
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Making it clear that model-switching (i.e. metar-ationality) is valid, practical, and actually useful.
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Would be good to potentially network outside of _bay area_ too. Maybe. At some stage
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Yes, that would be great. And, if there is to be some sort of project, critical mass in one place may help it get off the ground.
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I've heard of these wild meaningness parties. You can tell who just came from there by the mad glint in their eye
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I'm down as well. Seriously,
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Reason is pragmatic, embodied, contingent, multiple, embodied, whereas Rationality has a more ideological and absolutist structure.
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One of the strengths of some Buddhism is the way it acknowledges the emptiness of meaning without succumbing to "fuck it all" despair.
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For me nihilism/pessimism is a necessary stage and point of return.
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But the emphasis on *practical* is key. For me this turns on the difference btween Reason and Rationality.
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