roughly postrationalism as it somewhat originally existed was itself a reaction to a religious regard for object level rational thinking in the rationalist community which as you may recall had no shortage of cults of personality. and also straight up cult spinoffshttps://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1426186822523174913 …
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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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same I envision it as a miasma of grey that I wade into and sort into black and white I don't really care how formally rigorous that determination is as long as it can generally be accepted by those around me, esp since no one else seems to bother and it's better than grey
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I've often noted that in situations that have no established code, the first person to say "this is how it's going to be" has moral authority by default. Very useful.
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My own rational triage asks "Is this an arbitrary decision made by a human being?" The rationalist supposes the decision maker will muster all the evidence for and against - the post-rationalist knows that's not what happens.
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My own experience as a consultant has led me to believe human beings are rational about as long as they can hold their breath - and it is only with the most strenuous of efforts they can concentrate long enough to consider the facts.
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