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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Heidegger worked for Toyota? 🤔
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The Toyota one is to repeatedly ask why about previous answer... about backtracking to roots rather than unbundling causal structure
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I’m interested in how a domain, work of language or art, mathematical proof, movie, etc. can be “up its own ass”
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