Hmm. @Meaningness has claimed metarationality and @sarahdoingthing 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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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.pic.twitter.com/7p9kFNUlOn
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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
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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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Alright. stone cold steve austin. I'm owning it. pararationality ftw.
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If I ever got into blogging I'd do it this way. Lots of stuff going on under the hood of how rationally framed methods are developed and applied that I'm consistently interested in. Statistical significance / repro crisis. Managerialism. Rigor in AI / numerical computation.
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Call me badger. I'll be more likely to continue scavenging kills and garbage than to start blogging for the foreseeable, but I'll keep it in mind for my early retirement.
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