Routine activity usually goes smoothly overall, despite frequent minor glitches, because we have methods for repairing trouble.| Meta-rationality
The rationalist theory of justified action leads to nihilism. Understand your activity as a vivid, variegated landscape instead.| Meaningness
This fits what I’ve been thinking about in terms of the meaning of “meaning.” Meaning is a connection between things: between words and what they refer to, between actions and intentions, etc. Reasonableness preserves these connections, even if it doesn’t always attend to all of them (e.g. butterfly effects).| metarationality.com
A summary explanation of everyday reasonable activity, with a tabular guide and a concrete example.| Meta-rationality
Rationalist theories of action try to deduce optimal choices from true beliefs. This is rarely possible in practice.| Meta-rationality