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People have an annoying tendency to hear the word “rationalism” and think “Spock”, despite direct exhortation against that exact interpretation. But I don’t know of any source directly describing a stance toward emotions which rationalists-as-a-group typically do endorse. The goal of this post is to explain such a stance. It's roughly the concept of hangriness, but generalized to other emotions.
That means this post is trying to do two things at once:
Many people will no doubt disagree that the stance I describe is roughly-canonical among rationalists, and that's a useful valid thing to argue about in [...]
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Outline:
(01:13) Central Example: Hangry
(02:44) The Generalized Hangriness Stance
(03:16) Emotions Make Claims, And Their Claims Can Be True Or False
(06:03) False Claims Still Contain Useful Information (It's Just Not What They Claim)
(08:47) The Generalized Hangriness Stance as Social Tech
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
People have an annoying tendency to hear the word “rationalism” and think “Spock”, despite direct exhortation against that exact interpretation. But I don’t know of any source directly describing a stance toward emotions which rationalists-as-a-group typically do endorse. The goal of this post is to explain such a stance. It's roughly the concept of hangriness, but generalized to other emotions.
That means this post is trying to do two things at once:
Many people will no doubt disagree that the stance I describe is roughly-canonical among rationalists, and that's a useful valid thing to argue about in [...]
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Outline:
(01:13) Central Example: Hangry
(02:44) The Generalized Hangriness Stance
(03:16) Emotions Make Claims, And Their Claims Can Be True Or False
(06:03) False Claims Still Contain Useful Information (It's Just Not What They Claim)
(08:47) The Generalized Hangriness Stance as Social Tech
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First published:
Source:
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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