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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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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