A fully meta-rational workplace
A meta-rational organization may appear chaotic (although productive and innovative), until you notice how smoothly routine rational work gets done.
February 26th, 2022
Resisting or embracing meta-rationality
It's natural to react to meta-rationalism with skepticism or hostility initially. You may come to delight in it.
February 25th, 2022
Bring meta-rationality into your Orbit
The Orbit spaced repetition system may enhance your understanding and recollection of meta-rationality.
January 24th, 2021
Maps, the territory, and meta-rationality
“The map is not the territory”—what is it then? How do rational models actually work?
January 24th, 2021
The epistemological categories—truth, belief, inference—are richer, more complex, diverse, and nebulous than rationalism supposes.
January 8th, 2021
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January 1st, 2021
We accomplish reference by any means necessary: observable, improvised work that makes it clear what we are talking about in context.
January 1st, 2021
Peculiar features of language make sense as tools to enable collaboration, rather than to express objective truths.
December 28th, 2020
We actively work to perceive aspects of the world as meaningful, in terms of our purposes, in context.
December 19th, 2020
Routine activity usually goes smoothly overall, despite frequent minor glitches, because we have methods for repairing trouble.
December 13th, 2020
You are accountable for reasonableness
Accountability is the key concept in understanding mere reasonableness, as contrasted with systematic rationality.
November 29th, 2020
Reasonableness is meaningful activity
Understanding concrete, purposeful activity is a prerequisite to understanding the formal rationality that depends on it.
November 28th, 2020
A summary explanation of everyday reasonable activity, with a tabular guide and a concrete example.
November 21st, 2020
A dramatic perspective shift: understanding rationality as dependent on mere reasonableness to connect it with reality.
November 19th, 2020
The Eggplant is neither cognitive nor science, although it seeks a better understanding of some phenomena cognitive science has studied.
November 14th, 2020
Part Two: Taking reasonableness seriously
Everyday reasonableness is the foundation of technical, formal, and systematic rationality.
November 10th, 2020
Rationalist theories of action try to deduce optimal choices from true beliefs. This is rarely possible in practice.
October 25th, 2020
Statistics and the replication crisis
The mistaken belief that statistical methods can tell you what to believe drove the science replication crisis.
October 24th, 2020
The probability of green cheese
A thought experiment shows why probability theory and statistics cannot address uncertainty in general.
October 16th, 2020
If probability theory were an epistemology, we’d want it to tell us how confident to be in our beliefs. Unfortunately, it can’t do that.
October 10th, 2020