52. This "hidden" ideological aspect of the rationalist community is borne out in the "standard" modernist-technocratic (left) or liberal-libertarian (right) politics of many rationalists I spoke to. Initiatives like EA fall neatly into the technocratic paradigm.
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53. Thus we might view the (conscious or unconscious) force driving individuals from rationalism to postrationalism as a desire to develop a reflective stance on the world. Many postrats I know have similar politics to rats, but with better groundings & more idiosyncracies.
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54. This supports my earlier thesis of "returning to the world". The only way to develop a reflective worldview is to "know oneself", and self-knowledge can only be achieved through individualized experience and reflective thought.
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55. The postrat criterion of "interestingness" can be seen from a Fristonian perspective as "finding the thing which most violates your priors". Truly interesting experiences have potential to shift one's priors, which manifests as personal growth (or trauma).
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56. This interestingness-mediated view of belief is a departure from the rationalist view, in which a good argument is sufficient to change one's perspective. Arguments can be interesting, and thus they can effect you, but the most interesting things are not arguments.
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57. Bringing this back to the beginning, we can see now that postrationalism is indeed an attempt to move "beyond" the rationalist (unreflective) ideology, to become "post-rational". This places it within the ancient lineage of self-knowledge practices.
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58. But as with all quests toward self-knowledge, each individual's journey is truly their own. For this reason, I wonder if a "real" postrat canon would act as an impediment, an attempt to apply one-size-fits-all reasoning to a many-shaped problem.
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59. A better solution than a canon may be a network of relationships between readings, with certain nodes made larger due to readership or qualitative importance. But crystallizing the set of readings might impede the bottom-up, organic nature of community development.
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60. It would befit the postrat perspective to avoid top-down community planning, as criticized in the semi-canonical (lol) favorite "Seeing like a State". This justifies why much of the postrat world is simply mutuals on Twitter.
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----calling it a night, I'll pick this up tomorrow, although not sure where to go with it (maybe, failure modes of postrationality?), or whether I got things right or just projected my own experience onto the subculture. anyway, goodnight and good work making it this far!!----
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or perhaps a network of relationship between friends simpolism, the Real Postrationalism is thehttps://twitter.com/simpolism/status/1206424155752501249?s=19 …
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I think I'm serious about this actually Hunch is that bodies of knowledge of this flavor are maybe only feasibly transmitted person-to-person and possibly in the context of a community Can you imagine a postrationality without the dramatis personae?
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Mandatory intersubjectivity
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