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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Flower Ornament‏ @msutherl Feb 11
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      Replying to @literalbanana @yashkaf and

      That's not quite the historical case, but I like it Post-rat to me is just @vgr, @Meaningness, and friends since around 2013 More like rationality + anthropology

      2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    2. Science Banana‏ @literalbanana Feb 11
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      Replying to @msutherl @yashkaf and

      it’s not a real thing it’s just a joke but I love seeing how people make it real

      3 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    3. Flower Ornament‏ @msutherl Feb 11
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      Replying to @literalbanana @yashkaf and

      I don't know, I think it's both – I don't read the Meaningness book as a joke

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    4. Science Banana‏ @literalbanana Feb 11
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      Replying to @msutherl @yashkaf and

      I think he calls it metarationality

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    5. Jake Orthwein‏ @JakeOrthwein Feb 11
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      Replying to @literalbanana @msutherl and

      Jake Orthwein Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

      Relevant thread:https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1079460296022867968?s=20 …

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      Venkatesh Rao @vgr
      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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    6. Flower Ornament‏ @msutherl Feb 11
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      Replying to @JakeOrthwein @literalbanana and

      I'll take "irrational"

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    7. Jake Orthwein‏ @JakeOrthwein Feb 11
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      Replying to @msutherl @literalbanana and

      Transrational is way more galaxy-brained and still on the table! (Or did Ken Wilber take it?)

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    8. Mechanical Monk  🌇‏ @mechanical_monk Feb 11
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      Replying to @JakeOrthwein @msutherl and

      Mechanical Monk  🌇 Retweeted Mechanical Monk  🌇

      https://twitter.com/mechanicalmonk1/status/1197657702702432256?s=20 …

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      Mechanical Monk  🌇 @mechanical_monk
      Replying to @sonyasupposedly
      I'm an early-adopter contrarian, already on the lookout for the next prefix I'm bullish on trans- (rationality/transmodernism), maybe hyper-
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    9. Jake Orthwein‏ @JakeOrthwein Feb 11
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      Replying to @mechanicalmonk1 @msutherl and

      Cis too. E.g. cis-humanist.

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    10. Flower Ornament‏ @msutherl Feb 11
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      Replying to @JakeOrthwein @mechanicalmonk1 and

      cis rational 😂

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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      Replying to @msutherl @JakeOrthwein and

      TERR: trans-exclusionary radical rationalists or even TERROR: trans-exclusionary radical rationalists (object relations)

      1:44 PM - 11 Feb 2020
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        2. "Fire Buddha" Rival Voices (76/284 olympic squats)‏ @nosilverv Feb 11
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          Replying to @vgr @msutherl and

          and he says he's not a postrationalist 😂

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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          Replying to @nosilverv @msutherl and

          I just speak the lingo; inside my head it's all bayesian logic and solomonoff induction simulating how y'all think

          2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
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