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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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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eigenrobot @eigenrobotive occasionally thought that the easiest way to do good empirically work was to go talk to people with metis and just translate that to some BS episteme. and then i started to wonder why the episteme even mattered most of the time https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1422565071717380103 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 31 likesShow this thread -
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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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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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