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Fluidity

This is a nonfiction audiobook narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, David Chapman. Full text at: https://meaningness.com

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Original music by Kevin MacLeod. https://incompetech.com/music/

Artwork on this webpage is by Barry Gohn. https://www.deviantart.com/bzgbg

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Oct 30, 2022

Approximation is a powerful technique, but is not applicable in all rational work, and so is not a good general theory of nebulosity.
 
https://metarationality.com/approximation
 
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Oct 23, 2022

“Shades of gray” is sometimes a good way to think about nebulosity—the world’s inherent fuzziness—but not always.
 
 
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Oct 16, 2022

Formal methods formally require impossibly precise definitions of terms. How do we use them effectively without that?
 
https://metarationality.com/definition
 
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Oct 9, 2022

Reduction is a powertool of rationality, but reductionism can’t work as a general theory; most rationality is not reduction.
 
https://metarationality.com/reductionism
 
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Oct 2, 2022

Formal rationality requires absolute truths, but those are rare in the eggplant-sized world. How do we do rationality without them?
 
https://metarationality.com/sort-of-truth
 
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