New peer-reviewed publication by my favorite #philosophistorian Richard Carrier:
„#God is therefore unnecessary to ground #moral facts, and moral facts derive fundamentally from the conjunction of #rationality and the situational facts of any potentially moral decision, and therefore are empirically discoverable as such.“
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/8/1061
Blog-post: https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/37458
Some #guys are really #creepy and, apparently, they don't realize it. My first/intuitive reaction is to block them, but my rational says that they have said/done nothing that justifies it.
I'm in a dilemma: Should I follow #rationality or #intuition?
@sz_duras The technopromise of slavery, #Nietzsche's #littleReason, constitutes the axiomatic basis of the modern relationship to technology, to man and to #nature, and in this the greatest of #dangers because it has become, in a few millennia, a #greatUnreason. The rhetoric of the technoprophets must be breached by #rationality (#Spinoza #Adorno). Traditional Chinese #culture is freed from any #humanFinality, it seems to me (François #Jullien).
SciTechDaily: Are We Truly Rational? AI Challenges a Long-Held Scientific Belief…
Scientists have long studied how people and animals make decisions, often looking at how recent experiences and trial-and-error shape behavior... #technology #ai #rationality
In addition to the free audio paper and (corrected) #preprint above, this 2-factor account of reflection article now has a DOI. 
The journal's version: https://doi.org/10.5840/resphilosophica2711
The full issue: https://pdcnet.org/collection-anonymous/browse?fp=resphilosophica&fq=resphilosophica%2FVolume%2F8898%7C102%2F8997%7CIssue%3A+3%2F
You haven't been DESTROYED before you have been DESTROYED with FACTS and LOGIC.
Have you been DESTROYED with FACTS and LOGIC?
No?
Then keep on going. #motivationaltoot #destroyed #facts #logic #fedoras #atheism #rationality #crushed
Spinoza, the Dialectic of Reason, and the Critique of Instrumental Rationality
#Spinoza is not a #critic of #reason, but its greatest defender: he anticipates the #DialecticOfReason (#Adorno & #Horkheimer) by advocating for an immanent, liberating, and joyful #rationality. Unlike Ayn #Rand’s view, he does not reject reason, but seeks to save it from #domination and #utilitarianism. #philosophy The critique of reason by Adorno and Horkheimer in the Dialectic of …
Public Service Announcement
If someone wants you to NOT THINK, they are NOT YOUR FRIEND
Don't worry about it
It's inevitable
We don't have time for this
You must decide now
This is above my pay-grade
It's not your problem
It is written
Meditation helps
I've always voted for them
There is nothing you can do about it
Might as well live with it
There no budget for that
Embrace AI or get out
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It’s not just #economic #exploitation, but also #consent #manufacturing, #narrative #manipulation, and #criminalizing #dissent. #Democracy is just a #facade; behind it, a #totalitarian #rationality is taking root.
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The obsession with “transaction” and “no limits” is not unique to tech billionaires. The #Megamachine itself produces subjectivities adapted to its totalizing managerial rationality. It’s a systemic issue, not just a personal flaw.
Update to the post: the critique no longer targets instrumental rationality itself, but rather the managerial, productivist, and extractivist goals that shape modern reason. Inspired by Spinoza, we distinguish the use of reason (which can be emancipatory) from its instrumentalization in the service of domination and control. #philosophy #critique #rationality
From #LLM research, turn-of-the-century #Rationality Wars, 20th-century #Pragmatism, and 19th-century #Economics, I argue for what I call Strategic Reflectivism, a view about the nature and norms of reasoning in both humans and machines.
![Section 2. It's Not [Reasoning Model] Size That Matters; It's How You Use Them](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/596/160/014/832/308/original/0833909f5c106c9f.jpeg)
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in #rationality.
—Bertrand Russell
Arden Hart confronting TRANSPHOBIA in the Secular Movement at the American Atheist National Convention last week in Minneapolis!
#Trans #TransRights #TERF #UK #US #Culture #Politics #Humanism #NewSkeptics #Atheists #Rationality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxOAh20qo84
Does awareness of intuition's fallibility help people avoid faulty intuitions?
#Teaching students #DualProcessTheory didn't help them avoid faulty intuitions about #physics problems.
Skepticism of alternative #medicine was predicted by better reflection test performance in two studies of people from the U.S. (N ≅ 1000).
Slightly moreso among those who cared more about #rationality (i.e., basing their beliefs on evidence and #logic).
I am driven by my emotions.
"Our opinions generally have emotional rather than intellectual roots, and indeed rationality largely functions as a post hoc justification. Our political opinions, ultimately, are what we feel about the world, not what we think about it. And in turn, our opinions about particular events have a lot to do with how we feel about the world in general. It’s not an exaggeration to say that most people’s views about the kind of things that happen today are extensions of concerns of their own ego. And consequently, invitations to change their minds because new facts emerge, or because old ideas are discredited by new evidence, are in fact a threat to the strength and even survival of that ego."
"But few people, especially those who have received a decent education, want to acknowledge that their views are based on emotion and not reason. They therefore try to argue".
“We’re stepping into the most pro-growth, pro-business, pro-American administration I’ve perhaps seen in my adult lifetime,” gushed the hedge fund manager Bill Ackman in December...
“You don’t get fired for being bullish, but you do get fired for being bearish on Wall Street,” said Berezin.
#finance #trade #tariffs #macroeconomics #Trumpism #collapse #psychology #groupthink #rationality #biases #logic #reasoning
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-stock-market-wall-street.html
Is #rationality a normative or descriptive concept?
Kevin Reuter, Lucien Baumgartner, Michael Messerli "present the findings of a #corpusLinguistics study revealing that people commonly perceive the concept of rationality as normative."
