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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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