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wondering about everything • coding & cat-herding at @makerdao • existence precedes essence—or does it? ☯

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    1. Fate Of Twist‏ @FateOfTwist_ 23 Jun 2019
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      7/ I've seen similarly overreaching criticisms of "academia". There is still a great deal of good work done there. The best insights are in old books. We're mostly amateurs here. (why do my favourite well-known and postrat-friendly authors never get mentioned?)

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    2. Fate Of Twist‏ @FateOfTwist_ 23 Jun 2019
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      8/ This wouldn't be as much of a problem if postrat insight porn didn't bump against delicate philosophical issues so frequently. The number of situations and angles is very broad, allowing for lots of postrat play, but the truth is still very narrow and tight.

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    3. Fate Of Twist‏ @FateOfTwist_ 23 Jun 2019
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      9/ I guess I think there are a lot of habits to unlearn and assumptions to excise from being a rationalist. Postrationality is not a stage, it is an event of losing faith. Once out, there is still a great deal of incremental growth in overcoming one's personal rationalisms.

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    4. Fate Of Twist‏ @FateOfTwist_ 23 Jun 2019
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      10/ What I think alienates me from you guys is I think the truth is very narrow and tight, philosophy is particularly a very delicate subject yet constitutes the most important problems facing us. This necessitates carefulness, rigour and depth on top of exploration and play

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    5. Fate Of Twist‏ @FateOfTwist_ 23 Jun 2019
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      11/ Why is philosophy delicate? For one, it is very interconnected and interdependent. Metaphysics depends on ethics, and ethics depends on metaphysics. Both depend on epistemology and vice versa. Philosophies *of* then depend on these.

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    6. Fate Of Twist‏ @FateOfTwist_ 23 Jun 2019
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      12/ The main issue then is that if you get metaphysics wrong, not just that you're in a state of ignorance, this can block you from seeing ethics and render you incapable of doing it in a way that ignorance does not. Falsity veils, and ignorance is often cured by just looking

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    7. Fate Of Twist‏ @FateOfTwist_ 23 Jun 2019
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      13/ If the human body is a sack of atoms configured via natural selection, then you might view the ethical landscape as one of liberating ones self and humanity from evolution's "teleology". Neurotransmitters might become the seat of the good.

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    8. Fate Of Twist‏ @FateOfTwist_ 23 Jun 2019
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      14/ Maybe in the way rationalists are wrong about the role of models and theory, and this calls for a careful reexamination of their nature, how and when to use them and how and when they go wrong, there is a similar way to go wrong in postrat "just trying out frames" and play.

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    9. Fate Of Twist‏ @FateOfTwist_ 23 Jun 2019
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      15/ What goes wrong if you spend all your time playing with ideas and trying out frames, creating and reading insight porn, making crazy models?

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    10. Fate Of Twist‏ @FateOfTwist_ 23 Jun 2019
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      16/ I like you guys and I think a lot of you do good things. Even though I know like 2 of you IRL, there are ways in which I feel closer to you than my IRL friends. But I still feel alienated, as if none of you feel confronted with the same issues I am. welp

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      Lawrus‏ @levity 23 Jun 2019
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      I really appreciate this thoughtful criticism. Every domain has its path of mastery and stages of competence. Postrat is no exception. Plus it’s fundamentally more difficult than rat, so it’s not surprising we are often failing at it or at least not being consistent.

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        1. Lawrus‏ @levity 23 Jun 2019
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          We level up as a community by raising our standards of discourse, so thanks for contributing your 2c. (Especially hard on Twitter with cultural norms that value hot takes and shitposting)

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