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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A lot of my thoughts fit this description. Like "mediocrity is good" or "evolution selects for mediocre mediocre" are prototypical pararational ideas. Their relationship to to rationality is the same as paranormal stuff to "science" -- a control group that can go out of control
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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.
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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