#rationalism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rationalism, aggregated by home.social.
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Every now and then someone brings up #EffectiveAltruism, #TESCREAL, #RokosBasilisk, #Rationalism, or some other #Musk related nonsense. I ridicule it, or laugh, and move on. The whole evil god of Roko's Basilisk is so silly it doesn't feel worth writing about. But people started a whole cult over it and killed a bunch of people.
Since then I've been meaning to actually spend time tearing it down. So I think it's time to go kill a god. Fortunately it involves making fun of Elon Musk specifically and all the #AI-pilled #TechBros more generally, so that's nice I guess.
Also, I make the argument that we're all in a simulation that only exists to torture Elon Musk.
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Vampire Island wants the thrill of proving vampires were real—then quietly redefines “real” as misunderstood corpses and contagious disease. Investigation into the Invisible World hovers around elves and clairvoyants without ever asking the one question that matters: where’s the evidence?
#Documentary #FilmCriticism #Skepticism #CriticalThinking #Vampires #Elves #Folklore #Science #Myth #MovieReview #Rationalism
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/the-historiography-of-the-unfalsifiable-forensic-rationalism-and-the-aesthetic-of-belief-in-speculative-documentary-media/ -
Writing and speaking can be used/mistreated/instumentalised/weaponised "not to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, in "A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia" @ben
#criticalTheory #communication #media #knowledge #publicOpinion #epistemology #agnotology #rationalism #reason #truth #wordsMatter #semiotics #Deleuze #Guattari #Capitalism #quote #quotes #FrenchTheory #subjugate
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“Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, in "A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia"
#criticalTheory #communication #media #knowledge #publicOpinion #epistemology #agnotology #rationalism #reason #truth #wordsMatter #semiotics #Deleuze #Guattari #Capitalism #quote #quotes #FrenchTheory
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In the Way of Inquiry • Reconciling Accounts
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/01/24/in-the-way-of-inquiry-reconciling-accounts-a/The Reader may share with the Author a feeling of discontent at this point, attempting to reconcile the formal intentions of this inquiry with the cardinal contentions of experience. Let me try to express the difficulty in the form of a question:
What is the bond between form and content in experience, between the abstract formal categories and the concrete material contents residing in experience?
Once toward the end of my undergrad years a professor asked me how I'd personally define mathematics and I told him I saw it as “the form of experience and the experience of form”. This is not the place to argue for the virtues of that formulation but it does afford me one of the handles I have on the bond between form and content in experience.
I have no more than a tentative way of approaching the question. I take there to be a primitive category of “form‑in‑experience” — I don’t have a handy name for it yet but it looks to have a flexible nature which from the standpoint of a given agent easily passes from the “structure of experience” to the “experience of structure”.
Overview
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_OverviewObstacles
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_5#Obstacles#Peirce #Inquiry #InquiryIntoInquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems
#Semiotics #SignRelations #Semiositis #ObstaclesToInquiry
#Logic #Abduction #Deduction #Induction #ScientificMethod
#Experience #Expectation #EffectiveDescription #FiniteMeans
#Abstraction #Analogy #Form #Matter #Empiricism #Rationalism
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In the Way of Inquiry • Material Exigency 2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/01/20/in-the-way-of-inquiry-material-exigency-a/A turn of events so persistent must have a cause, a force of reason to explain the dynamics of its recurring moment in the history of ideas. The nub of it's not born on the sleeve of its first and last stages, where the initial explosion and the final collapse march along their stubborn course in lockstep fashion, but is embodied more naturally in the middle of the above narrative.
Experience exposes and explodes expectations. How can experiences impact expectations unless the two types of entities are both reflected in one medium, for instance and perhaps without loss of generality, in the form of representation constituting the domain of signs?
However complex its world may be, internal or external to itself or on the boundaries of its being, a finite creature's description of it rests in a finite number of finite terms or a finite sketch of finite lines. Finite terms and lines are signs. What they indicate need not be finite but what they are, must be.
Fragments —
The common sensorium.
The common sense and the senses of “common”.
This is the point where the empirical and the rational meet.
I describe as “empirical” any method which exposes theoretical descriptions of an object to further experience with that object.
Overview
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_OverviewObstacles
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_5#Obstacles#Peirce #Inquiry #InquiryIntoInquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems
#Semiotics #SignRelations #Semiositis #ObstaclesToInquiry
#Logic #Abduction #Deduction #Induction #ScientificMethod
#Experience #Expectation #EffectiveDescription #FiniteMeans
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In the Way of Inquiry • Material Exigency 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/01/20/in-the-way-of-inquiry-material-exigency-a/Our survey of obstacles to inquiry has dealt at length with blocks arising from its formal aspects. On the other hand, I have cast this project as an empirical inquiry, proposing to represent experimental hypotheses in the form of computer programs. At the heart of that empirical attitude is a feeling all formal theories should arise from and bear on experience.
Every season of growth in empirical knowledge begins with a rush to the sources of experience. Every fresh‑thinking reed of intellect is raised to pipe up and chime in with the still‑viable canons of inquiry in one glorious paean to the personal encounter with natural experience.
But real progress in the community of inquiry depends on observers being able to orient themselves to objects of common experience — the uncontrolled exaltation of individual phenomenologies leads as a rule to the disappointment and disillusionment which befalls the lot of unshared enthusiasms and fragmented impressions.
Look again at the end of the season and see it faltering to a close, with every novice scribe rapped on the knuckles for departing from that uninspired identification with impersonal authority which expresses itself in third‑person passive accounts of one's own experience.
Overview
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_OverviewObstacles
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_5#Obstacles#Peirce #Inquiry #InquiryIntoInquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems
#Semiotics #SignRelations #Semiositis #ObstaclesToInquiry
#Logic #Abduction #Deduction #Induction #ScientificMethod
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In UP's Hamirpur, FIR Filed Against 4 Men for Celebrating Periyar's Birthday
A VHP functionary alleged that they were "insulting Hindu Gods and Goddesses."
https://www.thequint.com/news/men-booked-for-celebrating-periyar-birthday-in-uttar-pradesh-hamirpur
#UttarPradesh #ThanthaiPeriyar #EVR #periyar #dalits #VHP #hinduism #rationalism #ReligiousSentiments #hindutva #india
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#Rationalism is a philosophical position or view that #reason is the source of knowledge.
Vernon J. #Bourke wrote that rationalism is defined as a methodology or a theory "in which the criterion of #truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive."
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#quotes #philosophy #epistemology #patriarchy #whiteness #agnotology #historyOfScience #intelligence #factChecking #knowledge #publicOpinion #learning #sociology #wordsMatter #hashtags @psychology #TESCREAL -
#MichaelShermer - How #BeliefSystems Affect #Believers
How do belief systems work their credulous magic? What principles enable belief systems to influence individuals and commandeer groups?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btAHRULz3l4&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #Psychology #NeuralNets #NeuralNetworks #OriginsOfBelief #Tribalism #Rationalism #Rationality #Politics
