Debate me all you want but there’s nothing to make me reconsider my opinion like hearing it from someone I dislike and that is the truth.
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Replying to @zerdeve @generativist
The daoists took it a step further:pic.twitter.com/uzrAciMR8P
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We invented math so we could debate with precision only to discover that mathematics churns up disorder as well.
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Replying to @cleverclue @mykola and
Simplification is an act of arrogance, of false confidence. If in order to act we must stretch ourselves, then let us at least endeavor to be kind.
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That’s what the Daoists were always going on about - you can’t really grok the Dao, so you should accept that your model is necessarily lossy and try to model as little as possible. Even kindness is tricky because you can’t know the outcome. They value being natural, ish?
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Yes, interesting, isn't it? I rather think that we should be modest about the degree that we invest in our adopted models. When we feel the strongest impulse to defend them are typically the very moment we should consider their weaknesses.
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Robert Anton Wilson describes a state that you attain after enough growth in the right directions that he calls Chapel Perilous, after arthurian legend. It's the moment you realize that no model of reality you ever make can explain everything you've experienced. From here... 1/2
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Replying to @mykola @cleverclue and
he says there are only two paths: paranoia or agnosticism. You either live your life threatened by every new experience or you discard the need to fit everything into a coherent model. "Multi-model agnosticism" is the term for the worldview I've landed on, from here. 2/2
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I relate to this term so much!
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Amy Magnus Retweeted myk is teetering
The thread continued here...https://twitter.com/mykola/status/1118213920911654920 …
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This was a great thread!
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