wrt epistemological standards specifically im less interested in developing formal models of complex events, but rather doing my best to hone heuristic approaches to quickly and frugally evaluate messy social phenomena
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eg, thread below formal models and statistical tests and so on can be inputs to this sort of epistemics but the pipeline from phenomena to data to models to papers to stylized facts to beliefs to actions is just messyhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1422585882310176774?s=19 …
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so i joke alot (dangerous) about completely rejecting rationality, once more in reaction to what I see as an over-reliance on "rationality" thats really just "needlessly systematizing things, and badly" but emphasis: the aim is to understand Betterhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1189945171619614720?s=19 …
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anyway that is my impression of some historical context for postrationality, and my personal epistemological project i emphasize /my/ because i dont want to speak for what i basically see as a bit group of people with frequently divergent interests and skills and goals
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anyway while i do think many of us do have Personalities i hope we are not coming off as somehow heroic or elevated or enlightened i deliberately try to avoid this wrt myself i think i have some small skills but i dont think im especially Giftedhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1259372865742200833?s=19 …
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yeah also this https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1278170320797499393?s=19 …pic.twitter.com/ZHNHIo8Lcn
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This was also my peeve with the rationalist community
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I think you might just not like people very much
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rationalism feels like bronze in the age of iron.
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rationalism is da aluminum in our day and age
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