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David Chapman
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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.
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David Chapman
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Unexpected discovery: Keith Stanovich has a chapter on “metarationality” in his 2010 “Decision Making” book.
He uses the word to mean evaluating preferences in a formal decision-theoretic framework. Which is important, and consistent with my use, but a much narrower conception. pic.twitter.com/0BOnWesFH5
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It works surprisingly well, but won’t quite get you to orbit: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_ca…
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David Chapman
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This fascinating misunderstanding was once used to prove that space rockets were impossible. Calculations showed that the most explosive substance then known, TNT, would be insufficient to power one. twitter.com/curiouswavefn/…
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David Chapman
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Yes I have come across “the reasonable person standard” in legal stuff
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David Chapman
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Yes… in practice, all technical fields have to do this, because nebulosity is unavoidable. It’s probably clearer in law than most others! Unfortunately one I know little about.
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David Chapman
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Thank, nice metaphor!
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David Chapman
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Thanks! Google is failing me… monkeys wearing hats?
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David Chapman
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🆕 Much of my explanation of how and why rationality works (the middle part of the book) is a simplified presentation of ethnomethodological concepts and findings in easier language.
It’s hip! You need to be able to say “ethnomethodology” confidently
meaningness.com/eggplant/ethno… pic.twitter.com/aGLORZV4zb
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Adam Strandberg
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my philosophy is indexical, yours is limited in scope, theirs totally fails to generalize
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Indexical Banana
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every seemingly innocent fragment of information is secretly plotting how to escape its context and cause trouble
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David R. MacIver
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I wish people were better at distinguishing "I understand where this person is coming from" from "I think this person is correct". I see way too many "lol can you imagine believing X" posts, and I think if you *can't* imagine it you're probably lacking crucial empathy skills.
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Ben Reinhardt
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1/ Did you know that Vannevar Bush (you know, the guy who helped enable everything from radar to the manhattan project, the NSF to memexes) wrote an autobiography?
Turns out that yes he did, it's been out of print since the 70's, and it's *excellent*
BOOK REPORT THREAD
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Chad Orzel
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In which I object to philosophers looking down at the sort of science done by the vast majority of professional scientists: forbes.com/sites/chadorze… (lunchtime @ForbesScience repost)
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David Chapman
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Ah, yes, the problem word here seems to be “directly”. There are of course several stages through which the causal path travels. It is however local and fast. Otoh a formal model on paper of some astrophysical phenomenon is not.
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David Chapman
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I assume many things are meaningful to dogs, but they aren’t capable of rationality in the relevant sense.
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David Chapman
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Yes… the one I’m suggesting is different, I think? I take it that some non-human animals have subjective awareness, but do not reason formally.
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David Chapman
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> through a causal chain result in your sticking a fork in it. What role do mathematical abstractions play in that?
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