This event profoundly shaped our world, but it has never been explained clearly, afaik. My eggplant book tries; but only relatively briefly (~50 pages) because it’s just background to my actual topics. Wish I could recommend a good source instead.https://twitter.com/everytstudies/status/1108008134839320579 …
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Most ideologies spawn “deconversion narratives,” from believers who realized the ism was false and left. Why are there so few rationalist deconversion narratives? Maybe postrational nihilism is so dreary that almost no one has the energy for it. Mine: https://meaningness.com/metablog/ken-wilber-boomeritis-artificial-intelligence …pic.twitter.com/X0X41jHoCG
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It’s not really a full-blown ideology for most adherents. More an instrumental cargo cult, like going to church to make friends or find dates. I don’t know any true hardcore ideologues who left the fold.
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Yes, that seems mostly true. But, I was a hardcore (if slightly atypical) rationalist before I deconverted.
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I can safely say I never was. I had to run rationality in emulation mode throughout the hands-on tech decade of my life. It felt nearly as much like a social performance as going to temple with religious parents. More stimulating though. Math is fun in a way faking prayer is not.
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