🧵 I will tweet 1-2 chapters of _In The Cells Of The Eggplant_ per week, in a 🧵 starting with this tweet. I’ll mark them 🆕 as I do, but ~40 chapters are ready now.
Meta post explaining what this is about and why you might or might not want to read it: meaningness.com/metablog/eggpl…
Meta post explaining what this is about and why you might or might not want to read it: meaningness.com/metablog/eggpl…
🆕 Learning to wield an invisible power: an introduction to meta-rationality.
You may find this book exciting if…
meaningness.com/eggplant/intro…
You may find this book exciting if…
meaningness.com/eggplant/intro…
🆕 "True—in what sense?" is a first step toward a more sophisticated understanding than both rationalist absolutism and anti-rationalist relativism.
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🆕 Formal systems are crisp; reality is mushy. How does technical rationality bridge this mismatch?
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🆕 Meta-rational reforms of institutions, and of society and culture at large, can address the breakdown into incoherent ineffectiveness we experience now. meaningness.com/eggplant/credi…
🆕 A book in five Parts. meaningness.com/eggplant/struc…
🆕 I had been railing against "rationalism" for decades without defining it, or explaining exactly what's wrong with it. No one else had, either! Finally, Part One of the meta-rationality book is a complete-enough explanation. meaningness.com/eggplant/ratio…
🆕 Definitions: rationality and related concepts, including meta-rationality.
Marking this "new" for those who are following this thread to read ~2 web pages per week, but it's a lightly revised version of text that's been up for a couple years.
meaningness.com/eggplant/ratio…
Marking this "new" for those who are following this thread to read ~2 web pages per week, but it's a lightly revised version of text that's been up for a couple years.
meaningness.com/eggplant/ratio…
🆕 From inside any technical system, the answer to trouble of any kind is "do more of the same thing we know how to do." Recognizing that the system just can't work in some situations requires stepping outside it. meaningness.com/eggplant/ratio…
🆕 Logical positivism was the last serious attempt at rationalism. There was no reason, at the outset, to think it would not work.
Present-day attempts to understand rationality face the same issues, so we must understand why it definitively failed.
meaningness.com/eggplant/logic…
Present-day attempts to understand rationality face the same issues, so we must understand why it definitively failed.
meaningness.com/eggplant/logic…
