buchhalter37

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   by buchhalter37 8y ago

   As chobeat kindly pointed out, nobody is criticizing rationality or reason here. It’s the worship of rationality that I think is deeply problematic. Examples? Economic models of society. Lesswrong.com. Joscha Bach’s talk. Rationality is not
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   by buchhalter37 8y ago

   Apologies for the sarcasm. I felt that the previous comment was very much ad hominem and the edit was particularly insidious. But you’re right, no excuse for bad form here :)
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   by buchhalter37 8y ago

   That captures a lot of my thoughts, yes! If you read German, I also found this interesting dissection of an earlier talk: http://mspr0.de/?p=4521
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   by buchhalter37 8y ago

   Did you edit your comment to remove the condescending remark about my new HN account? Wow. Well I’m glad to hear that “the East” had something to contribute too!