Eigenrobot - After Rationalism
Description
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This week I chat to Eigenrobot, prolific poster, podcaster, and unofficial king of post-rationalism (whatever we finally decided that is).
We chat about:
- Having babies, making families and community work
- What leads to low trust societies and the drifting away from high trust in the west
- "The conservation of suffering"
- What is post-rationalism?
- The American Cultural Empire and its consequences
- Preference Cascades and how everything can change overnight
- Echo chambers and internet hyperreality
- The Scott Alexander witch hunt
- Is there a real marketplace of ideas?
- Wokeness as an ethical-managerial superstructure that will be hard to dismantle
- Podcasting with friends
Eigen's recommended subversive thinker is medieval philosopher and theologian Peter (Pierre) Abelard and his book "Sic et Non"
You can find his work on Twitter, at @eigenrobot
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