This, and Vaniver’s later review on Maps of Meaning (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZaJNuYdAAC4kzcdc7/maps-of-meaning-abridged-and-translated), point to an important blindspot of rationalists—an allergy to narrative, which leads to a loss of meaning and an ability to motivate themselves.
These two posts give some concrete ways in which to recognize an transcend this blindspot. I think common knowledge of how to create myths and narratives for oneself, and understand how they operate in others, is quite important.
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This, and Vaniver’s later review on Maps of Meaning (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZaJNuYdAAC4kzcdc7/maps-of-meaning-abridged-and-translated), point to an important blindspot of rationalists—an allergy to narrative, which leads to a loss of meaning and an ability to motivate themselves.
These two posts give some concrete ways in which to recognize an transcend this blindspot. I think common knowledge of how to create myths and narratives for oneself, and understand how they operate in others, is quite important.