I enjoyed the podcast. What I found interesting is the tension between the ideas of learning from the culture as proposed by your mentioning "thick culture" and "The Secret of Our Success" vs the rationalism of you and the hosts. You all turned to the rationalist community because you had different degrees of discovering everyone was lying to you about reality!
Our culture (and pretty much any culture) has major flaws and it is a big mistake to just blindly trust that the culture has gotten values and practices correct. I think that is especially true of our culture which is largely based on *words* disconnected from reality. In fact, "words disconnected from reality" also describes our educational system.
Ha! So true. It seems that schools are designed to put a dark veil of words between the student and reality. Unless I have really wrestled with a problem on my own, the words of another person's description and/or solution aren't that informative.
...this is actually strange. Huh. Gimme a bit more time; I'll see if I can replicate the bug somewhere physically, where I can see what's going on. (In other news, REALLY excited to see this many people eager to do the book club!)
I enjoyed the podcast. What I found interesting is the tension between the ideas of learning from the culture as proposed by your mentioning "thick culture" and "The Secret of Our Success" vs the rationalism of you and the hosts. You all turned to the rationalist community because you had different degrees of discovering everyone was lying to you about reality!
Our culture (and pretty much any culture) has major flaws and it is a big mistake to just blindly trust that the culture has gotten values and practices correct. I think that is especially true of our culture which is largely based on *words* disconnected from reality. In fact, "words disconnected from reality" also describes our educational system.
I’d love to found a school where the motto is “words are mostly useless”
Ha! So true. It seems that schools are designed to put a dark veil of words between the student and reality. Unless I have really wrestled with a problem on my own, the words of another person's description and/or solution aren't that informative.
I suspect it may be because public schooling co-evolved with nation states, where the primary goal was uniformity of language...
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Me too. I thought I was the only one.
Same here.
Eep! Should be fixed now — take another crack at it, and tell me if it works.
It doesn't work for me at least.
...this is actually strange. Huh. Gimme a bit more time; I'll see if I can replicate the bug somewhere physically, where I can see what's going on. (In other news, REALLY excited to see this many people eager to do the book club!)