As for whether post-rats are more embodied, it's mixed in my experience, but certainly the key thinkers are liable to be more woke in that way. Rationalists on the other hand are almost always disconnected from their bodies.
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Replying to @msutherl @nosilverv and
Ok, I'll buy that. I've been trying to get rationalists to go dancing or play soccer for years now, with limited success. But I wouldn't jump from "disembodied" to "autistic and traumatized".
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disembodiment (dissociation) and many autistic (anti-social) traits (See mark zuck) comes from a response to traumapic.twitter.com/CG90oflLou
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Replying to @nosilverv @msutherl and
Putanumonit Jacob Retweeted eigenrobot
I think that this is the valley of bad post-rationality, which makes Eigen the first post-post-rationalist.https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/967114911401652225 …
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Replying to @yashkaf @nosilverv and
what is bad post-rationality? taking it seriously instead of just shitposting?
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Replying to @literalbanana @nosilverv and
Post-rationality: finding out that what was missing for you in Rationality discourse is X ∈ [trauma/spirituality/embodiment/equanimity/etc]. Bad post-rationality: assuming that every other rationalist's problem is lack of X.
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Replying to @yashkaf @nosilverv and
that’s a very interesting interpretation that I’d never though about before! (both of them)
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Replying to @literalbanana @yashkaf and
That's not quite the historical case, but I like it Post-rat to me is just
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it’s not a real thing it’s just a joke but I love seeing how people make it real
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Replying to @literalbanana @yashkaf and
I don't know, I think it's both – I don't read the Meaningness book as a joke
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I think he calls it metarationality
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Jake Orthwein Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
Relevant thread:https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1079460296022867968?s=20 …
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