(Epistemic status: intuitive, emotional) I am so happy I got to experience a timeline in which we can all be together last year a wizard friend of mine brought me to a portal known as LessWrong. I jumped straight in, and since then, have found myself in a forest with...
Crossposted from https://substack.com/home/post/p-183478095 Epistemic status: Personal experience with a particular failure mode of reasoning and introspection that seems to appear within different philosophical frameworks (discussed here are rationality and Tibetan Buddhism), involving intolerance of felt uncertainty, over-indexing on epistemic rigour, compulsive questioning of commitments, and moralisation of "correct" thinking itself....