Hmm. has claimed metarationality and has claimed postrationality. I need to claim a prefix too. I think I'll take "para."
I'm a pararationalist. Yay!
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I was thinking "sub" but "subrational" sounds synonymous with "stupid." And "infrarational" sounds too systematic a description of my "project" as it were. I'd like to see somebody do "infrarationality" though (I'm thinking post-Godelian logic and foundations as scope)
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Pararationality sounds accurate for me. It's got connotations of adventitiousness, accident/serendipity, and adjacency. I'm less interested in "topping" rationality or going "beyond" it than in sort of sidling off to the sides of it. Liminal adjacent possible rationality.
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The scope of pararationality is the underdetermination of lived experience relative to rational necessity. William James will-to-believe doctrine something something.
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Now if only we can get somebody to take on infrarationality as a mission, we can be the 4 horsepeople of the rationalitycalypse.
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Hmm... if I can think of enough jokes, I'm going to write this 4 horsepeople idea up as a post...
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Oh hey look the post/para/meta/infra quartet fits my goat-crow-rat triangle quite well.
I'll show myself out now.
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More seriously, I think general interest in transcending limits of rationality in all directions is, I think, a direct consequence of classical liberalism hitting its limits as a cognitive OS. At some point it just doesn't offer ways to talk about the world as we experience it.
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Pararationality could be called ironic esotericism as well. The primary marker is a predilection towards inventing unnecessary game-like constructs to think with just because they're fun, and recoding existing constructs for trolling and profit.
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Hmm the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse symbolize: conquest, pestilence, famine, and death
meta- (david) is obviously conquest, and post- (sarah) is obviously death
So I get to pick between pestilence and famine. Pestilence seems apt for para-. Famine is infra- (void)
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My kind of thinking "infects" healthy thinking like a parasite that won't go away 😎
All 4 horsepeople troll rationality with a specific trolling aesthetic. Pararational trolling is being annoying in juvenile way. Meta is "owning" and post is "trivializing". Infra is "confusing"
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Pararationalism is to rationalism as calculus of variations is to regular calculus. Very loosely and allegorically speaking.
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