Penicillin: a case study in meta-rationality
You were told a heart-warming fairy tale. The truth is much more interesting.| meaningness.substack.com
You were told a heart-warming fairy tale. The truth is much more interesting.| meaningness.substack.com
A glossary of unfamiliar words, and words used in uncommon ways, on this site.| Meta-rationality
Specialness is a sense of having been picked out for destiny by the Cosmic Plan. That causes you and others much trouble.| Meaningness
I’m really baffled by your opening, and while maybe it is a matter of rhetoric that I just don’t like, I think there is some actual disagreement. I think, in response to the meta-rationalist’s sneer, the rationalist should sneer back at the meta-rationalist for wanting to not believe in the truth sometimes. As you say later, the rationalist’s conception of truth is mistaken. So it’s not about believing in truth - one should want to believe only true things - it’s about believing i...| metarationality.com
Intuitions of “cosmic meaning” root in hunger for personal significance, and in encounters with vastness.| Meaningness
A summary explanation of everyday reasonable activity, with a tabular guide and a concrete example.| Meta-rationality
