The problem with curating a very coherent belief system: Reality is messy AF.
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So many communities on this website feel like coders busy building beautiful and elegant systems... ...to the wrong problem.
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Which is weird, because although I think the "elegant" analogy works, making belief systems coherent involves endlessly patching what you believe with bad kludges. But, social expression and reverberation makes them feel like more than duck tape, so you forget.
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Replying to @Shugars
Abelson/Festinger sense of cognitive/affective balance. The thing that causes us to never admit the plausibility of arguments at odds with our MLE (at least given an adversarial social cue) because we want stable absolutes (which we than layer on top of even more).
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Replying to @Shugars @generativist
I prefer to think of reasoning like a proto-galaxy. There are dense clumps, but it's not really 'coherent' in the Festinger sense. When asked our opinion or faced with a decision, we temporarily collapse portions of this space into coherent solar systems of thought.pic.twitter.com/l5dqjj1Yxl
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Oh, I like that! My dissertation is more about habitual processing. I actually rejected the primacy of graphs all together and used a tabular representation. I wanted to show how social cues and affective processing are "good enough" for quite a lot.
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Replying to @generativist @Shugars
But the future work section includes a graphical secondary system that resembles your description. A projection / collapse useful for high-effort cognition when demanded.
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Wait, what kind of graphs? My dissertation is on network structures of reasoning. ...Also, we should probably wait to talk about this more when your
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Hrm. Actually, yes. Maybe a DM/slack in a few weeks if you have time? I'd really like to hear about what you're working on, because I didn't realize it had such a big overlap.
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Replying to @Shugars
Great!
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