x

Karthik Bala

Message

1

7mo

Art, rationality, and the "feeling" for rightness

TL;DR: I wish to posit a tweak to rationalism that respects the importance of reason while relieving some of the massive individual burden of information processing and probabilistic risk management. This tweak is "rationality permeated with a feeling for rightness" (this "feeling for rightness" will be explained). The feeling for...

Jul 7, 20251

Karthik Bala

Subscribe

Message

1

7mo

Karthik Bala

Art, rationality, and the "feeling" for rightness

TL;DR: I wish to posit a tweak to rationalism that respects the importance of reason while relieving some of the massive individual burden of information processing and probabilistic risk management. This tweak is "rationality permeated with a feeling for rightness" (this "feeling for rightness" will be explained). The feeling for...

Jul 7, 20251

Art, rationality, and the "feeling" for rightness

Karthik Bala

7mo

TL;DR: I wish to posit a tweak to rationalism that respects the importance of reason while relieving some of the massive individual burden of information processing and probabilistic risk management. This tweak is "rationality permeated with a feeling for rightness" (this "feeling for rightness" will be explained). The feeling for rightness is an aesthetic intuition that adds a new dimension to each thought, so thinking then happens in two dimensions: "is this thought rational in the current context" and "how does this thought feel". The feeling for rightness can serve as a pruning function for the billions of valid thoughts one can produce in an argument or decision making process (the billions... (read 705 more words →)

2

1

LESSWRONG
LW

LESSWRONG
LW

Karthik Bala

Karthik Bala

Karthik Bala

Art, rationality, and the "feeling" for rightness

Karthik Bala

Karthik Bala

Karthik Bala

Art, rationality, and the "feeling" for rightness