I have lost some touch with what ‘rationality’ is, and I think the concept ‘rationality’ is less personally meaningful to me now.
is useful information in itself, in that it suggests that maybe Circling, or some other things that for whatever reason tend to accompany it, may tend to move people who do it away from LW-style “rationality” with time. Whether that’s a good thing (because LW-style “rationality” is actually too narrow or something of the kind) or a bad thing (because LW-style “rationality” is still more or less the best that’s on offer, and moving away from it almost inevitably means not thinking so clearly) is a separate question, of course.
My personal understanding of rationality is that Rationality(tm) was always open to being discarded along the way to attaining the 12th virtue.
If you speak overmuch of the Way you will not attain it.
To be clear, I still highly value truth-seeking, model-building, winning, etc. I just don’t know what ‘rationality’ is actually trying to refer to these days. Maybe it feels small and incomplete to me, given my current perspectives.
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is useful information in itself, in that it suggests that maybe Circling, or some other things that for whatever reason tend to accompany it, may tend to move people who do it away from LW-style “rationality” with time. Whether that’s a good thing (because LW-style “rationality” is actually too narrow or something of the kind) or a bad thing (because LW-style “rationality” is still more or less the best that’s on offer, and moving away from it almost inevitably means not thinking so clearly) is a separate question, of course.
My personal understanding of rationality is that Rationality(tm) was always open to being discarded along the way to attaining the 12th virtue.
To be clear, I still highly value truth-seeking, model-building, winning, etc. I just don’t know what ‘rationality’ is actually trying to refer to these days. Maybe it feels small and incomplete to me, given my current perspectives.