fantastic primer on postrationalism (which evolved out of rationalism, or perhaps on top of it!) someone has finally written a good intro to postrationalism, I'm actually floored. this is exciting!https://twitter.com/aaronzlewis/status/1154546424974991361 …
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we've long been wondering how on earth to define postrationalism better than "a cluster of people who hang out on Twitter and sometimes IRL who tend to be familiar with the rationalist canon but skeptical of it"
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"that fraction of the Less Wrong diaspora that didn't get eaten by politics, plus the people they encountered on their journey"
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also, very loosely, postrationalism : rationalism :: postdoc : doctorate It's only something you can really do right once you've mastered some system of formal reason
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Which isn't to say it's somehow better or more important than reasoning skills, or the natural and necessary next step. But you can't do the work without that background.
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