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    "title": "Why Rationality Fails",
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    "created": "2021-02-23 15:15:42 UTC",
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    "html": "<p>Specifically, Bayesian rationality:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Rationality is a real thing. It says, \u00e2\u0080\u009cUse these formulas, from math and logic, in this way without error.\u00e2\u0080\u009d That\u00e2\u0080\u0099s fine and sure advice. But \u00e2\u0080\u0094 here\u00e2\u0080\u0099s the big but \u00e2\u0080\u0094 rationality is silent on what goes into the formulas. What goes in is what\u00e2\u0080\u0099s it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s all about.</p>\n<p>There is no way to bootstrap rationality. All thought has to begin in inspiration, sometimes called intuition, of which there are many kinds, none of them rational.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>That is, all rational processes begin at a non-rational starting point: a world-view, if you will, that filters which facts are relevant to the rational calculation. Different world-views accept different (and equally true!) facts as relevant, and so can arrive at widely different conclusions -- all completely rational.</p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https://wmbriggs.com/post/34652/\">Why Moldbug/Yarvin/Alexander\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Bayesian Rationality Fails</a>.</p>\n"
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