That bugbear might turn out to be a straw man. The replication crisis disproportionately affects mindful (meaning oriented) approaches to truth, from Marshmallow to Milgram experiment. Our addiction to meaning biases us.
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There's something to that. Replication seems worst where there is most scope for interpretation -- at that point, statistical methods are simply used as justification, covering for weak methods elsewhere.
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The problem might be that
@Meaningness is unduly biased against rationalism. He has convinced himself that he has a discovered a deeper, metarational tool that lets him better intuit the noumenon amid the general nebulosity of his logically broken universe.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
I read him to be staunchly pro-rational. It's just that rationalism can't deliver what it claims, at least not without some other type of reasoning that is much less formalizable. And he's far from the first to notice that.
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Yes, that :)
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Ok but I would also pay to see David and Eliezer in a cage fight.
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I dunno
We tried a few weeks ago, but seem not to be able to understand each other’s main point. Peculiar.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness @jonathanstray and
I expect him to argue as a typical rationalist, but he doesn’t. He’s got an unusual take that I haven’t grokked. He expects me to be a typical anti-rationalist, which I’m not.
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No, you are not. I think that when you decided that minds cannot be rationally explained, your rational universe blew up, so you retreated and tried to fix a buddhist universe instead?
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Hmm, I also think that's a mischaracterization of David's position. But I'll let him answer, if he chooses. Or you could read his voluminous writing on the subject :P
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I read and perhaps misunderstood most of his voluminous writings on the subject, but I think he'll just ignore me :)
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