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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Jun 2018
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    The rationalist heuristic to figure out root causes for problems is to ask “why?” 5 times. Do not use when feeling stupid. The postrationalist heuristic to figure out root motivations for behaviors is to ask “why bother?” 5 times. Do not use when feeling depressed.

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      2. Science Banana‏ @literalbanana 28 Jun 2018
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        wait isn’t that heidegger not rationalists wtf

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Jun 2018
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        Heidegger worked for Toyota? 🤔 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys 

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      2. Brandon Hudgeons‏ @bhudgeons 28 Jun 2018
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        Yikes. Afraid to even try.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Jun 2018
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        Yeah, why bother

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      2. Robert E. P. Levy‏ @rplevy 28 Jun 2018
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        In this case I might also substitute "pragmatist" for post-rationalist, in the "pragmatist theory of meaning" sense not the colloquial meaning, as in we care about how events bear upon consequent situations of agents, not some view-from-nowhere explanation by axiomatic entailment

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      3. 𝕍𝕖𝕝𝕦𝕥𝕚 𝕤𝕚 𝔻𝕖𝕦𝕤 𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕥𝕦𝕣  🎄‏ @dbabbitt 29 Jun 2018
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        I replace the term “view-from-nowhere” with “from the view of that all-seeing deity you assume” when talking to Materialists just to be provocative.

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      1. Dan listens to the last days of the first days‏ @danlistensto 28 Jun 2018
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        5 tastes terrible though. 3 or 6 why's is much more palatable.

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      1. ben mosior‏ @HiredThought 28 Jun 2018
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        "When we ask 'how?,' we’re asking for a narrative. A story... As part of those stories, we’re looking to understand people’s local rationality. When it comes to decisions and actions, we want to know how it made sense for someone to do what they did." https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-infinite-hows …

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      1. Emmanuel Amberber‏ @EmmanuelAmber 28 Jun 2018
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        The n00b Angel investor version of this is asking, how will this scale, 10x without feeling stupid.

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      1. Joey Mavity‏ @joeymavity 29 Jun 2018
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        You can make it past one "why bother"?!

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