David Chapman
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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.
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https://meaningness.com/newsletter 17-09-2010 01:10:49
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🏄🏻♂️ Luke Cheng Yes, that's the form of the short-term version. Relatively simple problem for which the relevant expertise isn't available locally. Example here: metarationality.com/meta-rational-…
I've been collecting a list of recently-built places with good urban fabric. Here are some of my favorites:
1. Las Catalinas is a hill town overlooking an ocean cove in Costa Rica, built just over a decade ago with the bones of a classic Mediterranean hill town (Las Catalinas)
James Heathers (Alfalfa Male) David Chapman Adam Savage (Mythbusters) has a brilliant line, 'There is a huge difference between not understanding something and not understanding it yet' wired.com/2012/10/ft-sav…
David Chapman ... you repeatedly find yourself in situations where you are *quite sure* that local received wisdom is hopelessly blinkered, and the local fields are ploughed with salt, and yet you get to watch people proudly plough them with a teaspoon and call you an idiot troublemaker.
David Chapman Now, this is interesting.
If you like investigating bad research (and being deeply difficult about it), you find yourself very quickly in other people's 'circumscribed rational system'.
It's very good for your epistemic humility. But also...
From David Chapman: For decades after Copernicus's work, heliocentric models of the solar system were considered mere mathematical curiosities that made calculations simpler. Actual physical heliocentrism was not considered viable
metarationality.com/remodeling
Kenneth Folk I do hope I never lose my ability to appreciate 'adolescent inanity'
I think there's beauty about the expressions that appeal to a molting spirit living the wracked by the pains of transformation, forced to spin its own initiation rituals in a world that has lost touch with