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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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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What gnosis, garden variety?
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"In the sea of faith I fish with a net of doubts"
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might you say, even, that you aim to be less wrong?
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im afraid so
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This is where you lose a large part of your audience, since clearly the purpose of understanding is to Win Arguments, or better yet, Debates, since Winning A Debate makes you Canonically Right
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i think the L usually comes by arguing in the first place
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