A nice example of Meta-rational or Post-rational Twitter.
"What is your favourite crazy take?"
The example given shows an opinion which is "crazy" because it's incredibly unusual, to the point of trolling or stupidity or bad faith (but maybe extremely interesting if true)https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1300408724750831617 …
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Meta-rat Twitter however enjoys bad takes. They are interesting. The wrongness or rightness of takes is no longer the most important feature about them. Interestingness, funniness, illumination, novelty are more important. Truly enjoying these features only becomes possible...
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... with some kind of (unrelated) mental move. One that involves letting go of being "right" about the "right and true" way to understand the world. Probably triggered by being forced to admit that one's first "right and true" system was in fact wrong in key ways, even though...
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...even though it was a rational system, that *should have* worked. Realising that just because it's rational doesn't make it true is a big deal. Hence the name post- or meta-rational. Back to the tweet.
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The question involves: - liking bad takes, finding them interesting enough to have collected a bunch of them. - aesthetically deciding which ones were your favourites. It involves both humour, and art. Two features that meta-rat conversations display almost universally.
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And finally, it is surprisingly hard to answer the question. So far no-one has offered a single answer. It seems like it should be easy to produce a "favourite" "crazy take" but it's not. Meta-rat thought looks simple, fun, trollish, easy. But in fact it's incredibly difficult.
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This kind of philosophical work is what meta-rat twitter is attempting to do. Twitter is our scratchpad, a sketchbook for new and intresting ways to think about everyday things.
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