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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 29 Sep 2020

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Not sure I understand the question, but some thoughts that might be relevant… these draw heavily on Agre’s book and on Dreyfus’ BiTW. For rationality, a Problem is a more-or-less formal specification of a mathematical object. You Solve the problem by finding one.

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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 29 Sep 2020

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Capital P for rational Problems to contrast them with actual little p problems, which are real-world circumstances that give you grief. Most of life is not a problem (and of course also not a Problem). Mostly what you do works well enough. Breakfast… https://meaningness.com/eggplant/routine …pic.twitter.com/8cRqQvB0JP

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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 29 Sep 2020

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Big-P Problems may have been invented originally to address real-world problems, but the essential move of rationality is to strip context and purpose, so the Problem stands alone as an autonomous formal object:pic.twitter.com/adn0SDaM4w

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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 29 Sep 2020

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Most of life goes smoothly enough that it doesn’t constitute a problem; and we don’t usually notice that, because we’re doing whatever the thing is and why would we notice what it isn’t? But sometimes what you are doing turns into a hassle, a mess, a problem….pic.twitter.com/SrNKwnKzpY

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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 29 Sep 2020

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In some cases, modeling a problem as a Problem is the best way to address it. This is the precondition to engineering… and arguably to modernity overall. Sometimes it’s a huge win, and the reason rationality matters.

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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 29 Sep 2020

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Figuring out how best to model a real-world situation in formal terms is a meta-rational operation. So is deciding *whether* to treat a problem as a rational Problem! Almost always, the answer is “no.” Whatever your problem is, rationality is rarely an effective approach.

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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 29 Sep 2020

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Undergrad STEM education is mostly a pipeline of decontextualized Problems that you have to Solve in order to get a grade. There’s some handwaving about how they connect with the real world, but that’s mostly incidental or outright fake.

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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 29 Sep 2020

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Technical leadership involves—among much else—the meta-rational operations of deciding what problems and opportunities to address, and whether and how to turn them into Problems. https://meaningness.com/eggplant/introduction …pic.twitter.com/xMRQSqipLk

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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 29 Sep 2020

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Rationalism—the idea that solving Problems is the pinnacle of intellectual endeavor—closes off the work that is most consequential and effective. Smart rationalists often notice this around age 28, looking around to see who’s accomplishing stuff, and start to realize why….

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David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 29 Sep 2020

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There’s a further rationalist failure mode, which is to suppose that not only is STEM work a pipeline of Problems (from where? don’t ask) but analogously life is a pipeline of problems that are really Problems in disguise. The best way to live life is to Solve them accurately…

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MetaJess‏ @ssica3003 29 Sep 2020

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