Accountability is the key concept in understanding mere reasonablenes, as contrasted with systematic rationality | Continue reading
A summary explanation of everyday reasonable activity, with a tabular guide and a concrete example. | Continue reading
A dramatic perspective shift: understanding rationality as dependent on mere reasonableness to connect it with reality. | Continue reading
Everyday reasonableness is the foundation of technical, formal, and systematic rationality. | Continue reading
Practical epistemology: heuristics for how to think about difficult things, particularly using formal methods. | Continue reading
Meaningness is cloud-like: nebulous. It is real, but impossible to completely pin down. | Continue reading
Fine-grained analysis of a molecular biology how-to video reveals significant features of rationality in practice. | Continue reading
A thought experiment shows why probability theory and statistics cannot address uncertainty in general. | Continue reading
Unboundedly many issues may be relevant to any practical problem, so mathematical logic does not work as advertised. | Continue reading
An exercise in learning meta-rationality: can you give examples of these meta-rational phenomena? | Continue reading
Richard Feynman derided “cargo cult science” that sticks to fixed systems. Innovation requires an upgrade to fluid, meta-systematic inquiry. | Continue reading
Meaningness is the quality of being meaningful or meaningless. | Continue reading
How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them. | Continue reading
LED light bars: inexpensive, brighter, and more comfortable than a SAD light box as phototherapy for seasonal depression | Continue reading
How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them. | Continue reading
A first lesson in meta-rationality, or stage 5 cognition, using Bongard problems as a laboratory. | Continue reading
Improving artificial intelligence research with scientific testing, design practice, and meta-rational choice of methods and criteria | Continue reading
How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them. | Continue reading