David Chapman@Meaningness·Oct 23, 2015@wargfranklin @St_Rev Weird: I was going to post about postrationalism this week, and you beat me to it, due to writing time interruptions31
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Oct 23, 2015Replying to @Meaningness@Meaningness @wargfranklin @St_Rev Beginning to suspect you of idea-squatting. You're putting a stake in and not writing about, too many.11
David Chapman@Meaningness·Oct 23, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr @wargfranklin @St_Rev Yes, it’s a failing I often ruefully acknowledge :(1
David Chapman@Meaningness·Oct 23, 2015Replying to @Meaningness@vgr @wargfranklin @St_Rev I do occasionally deliver something, however!21
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Oct 23, 2015Replying to @Meaningness@Meaningness @wargfranklin @St_Rev So I follow the "do or do not, there is no try" school of writing...1
David Chapman@Meaningness·Oct 23, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr @wargfranklin @St_Rev I use “I intend to write about X” partly as a way of showing the large-scale structure of my world-model.2
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Oct 23, 2015Replying to @Meaningness@Meaningness @wargfranklin @St_Rev Thar be Ted Nelsonian Xanadus. There's always a way to caricature at lower order instead of pointing :D1
David Chapman@Meaningness·Oct 23, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr @wargfranklin @St_Rev Well, he was an early hero of mine (starting 1976), so…1
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @Meaningness@Meaningness @wargfranklin @St_Rev I am shocked :)10:27 PM · Oct 23, 2015
David Chapman@Meaningness·Oct 23, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr @wargfranklin @St_Rev I ranted about Cox’s Theorem for years before finally delivering:metarationality.comProbability theory does not extend logic | Meta-rationalityProbability theory is sometimes called a complete theory of rationality, on the mistaken belief it generalizes logic. I explain why this is wrong.22
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Oct 23, 2015Replying to @Meaningness@Meaningness @wargfranklin @St_Rev Good post. Is there a clean extension of predicate logic+discrete probability via modal logics?1