All you rationality mavens, with/without prefixes (vanilla, bounded-, biased-, post-, meta-)... Has anyone ever properly studied mortal-rationality? Reasoning bounded by the belief that you will certainly die within a period T, as will your descendants?
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Big life project to-do... need to do a 2nd edition of Tempo. I haz significant updates
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Emotions are a present condition, and are not under our control. I can’t prevent myself from thinking about the world I’ll leave for my kids and grandkids. Rationally I know it doesn’t matter, but my emotions still make me feel like shit if I imagine being a nihilistic ass.
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One of the more interesting ideas I’ve had (but I doubt I’m the first) is that religion is desirable because it provides a rational reason to do irrational things. The things religion tells us are good look suspiciously like a lot of the things that make us feel nice
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“Suicide is of the course the e. coli problem” Get a load of Albert Camus here
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I should leave myself outta this, although some of my closet Twitter pals are post-rats, and I like the rats too, because I subscribe to the view that Hume pwned rationalism (and derived prefixes) a few hundred years ago, as did Zhuangzhi.
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