I'm excited to watch the JBP-Žižek thing. I want to be angry at myself for that but I'm just not. I want the insipid resolution of a boxing match.
Yes. I've been working on an essay or even just notes on that exact idea! Instrumental rationality or whatever demands that you spend cognitive effort finding satisfying answers to unsatisfiable problems where each alteration breaks the whole thing. It's maddening!
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100%! And yet we feel like we have to keep trying. Modern intellectual life - really, 20th century intellectual life - is learning to be okay with grounding things relationally and dynamically, and not holding on to the idea of truth.
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Yes! Which demands good filters, the EXACT OPPOSITE of everything we design:https://twitter.com/microjudgments/status/1101568922011095041 …
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dope! :)
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