feedback for ingroup/metarational twitter: imho UST/ingroup is biased in the direction of rationality/current scientific orthodoxy (despite attempting to transcend/include rationality) and overly averse to the value of 'the ineffable' / learning via direct experience thoughts?https://twitter.com/_jordan_bates/status/924124150939099137 …
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2/ this intuition emerged as a result of realizing i am averse to tweeting hypotheses too far outside current scientific orthodoxy for fear of losing favor w ingroup/UST friends curious if this 'danger' is rooted in reality or is something i'm projecting/over-blowing or both
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Replying to @eigenrobot
hahahah in some ways the group seems to scoff at Science, or scientism, yet in other ways it still seems like an unspoken rule that science is still the closest thing we have to a thing that's worth placing at the top of one's hierarchy of lenses for understanding reality
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and if i had to guess i'd imagine the metaphysical assumptions typical of UST/ingroup mirror those of much of the rationalist/scientific community pretty closely
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the fairly common attraction to antinatalism, for instance, only makes sense to me if people are primarily approaching existence within something like a nihilist/consequentialist/materialist/'rationalist' frame/web of abstraction, and sort of worshipping Thought and its products
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I don't think this is correct but I'll leave it for the AN folks
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