.@Meaningness has a pretty core outline of one framework here, mulling the nature and generation of a fluid mindset; an emphasis on system selection, rather than within-system optimization
you might analogize this with game theory and mechanism designhttps://meaningness.com/metablog/stem-fluidity-bridge …
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things like the replication crisis and rampant politicization have been eating away at institutional academic authority for a while, but that was mostly inside baseball and a slow boil compared to fucking up covid you_had_one_job.jpg
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in summary this is what I am thinking is a major social role of our corner of twitter our epistemological system is broken; the mandate of heaven is up for grabs
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its not just a matter of algorithms or methods; its the design of institutions and platforms that teach and propagate such methods, their staffing, and their propagation humans and robots are the substrates for and originators of memes this is in short a cultural question
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so: yes rationalists and adjacents have weird knowledge generating systems this is absolutely the time for that kind of metaexploration let us fuck around and find us
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and specifically *politics* (and this kicks in both directions) very clearly superseded real analysis
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being accurate wasn't a useful mainstream position so it was left to the odd
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I predicted the manifestation of this precise tweet
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I think it's less that these institutions failed than that they made it Very Clear that they consider self-preservation more important than performing their mission, whatever that is.
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maybe that is a kind of failure when your legitimacy is predicted on not that? hmmm see your point tho
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) essay: how do we design a system that enables people to develop to think in this metasystematic manner?
this will be important in part (ii)
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