Lmst

@fixiemama @sz_duras

3/5
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.

#freedom #illusion

“Adults demand caution and rationality and fucking measured discourse. While they sit around doing that, the world keeps burning.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/06/17/adults-demand-caution-and-rationality-and-fucking-measured-discourse-while-they-sit-around-doing-that-the-world-keeps-burning/

#AdolescentsRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse #Adults #AmitieRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse #book #caution #CuteMutants #demand #doing #fiction #friendship #FriendshipJuvenileFiction #fucking #juvenileWorks #keepsBurning #LGBTGeneral #LGBTQGenreFiction #measuredDiscourse #ParanormalFiction #quote #rationality #SJWhitby #SexualMinoritiesFiction #sitAround #SuperheroScienceFiction #Superheroes #SuperheroesJuvenileFiction #SuperhérosRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse #TeenFiction #Teenagers #TeenagersJuvenileFiction #world #YoungAdultFictionNewZealand

Hermetic quote Whitby Cute Mutants The Sisterhood of Evil Mutants adults demand caution rationality fucking measured discourse sit around doing world keeps burning

@jwildeboer

2/3
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.

#Systemic #Rationality

A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Rational,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #experience #perception #rationality #reality #subjectivity #truth

The Uncomfortable Truth About What You Really Believe
June 02, 2025 • (S4 E44) • 25:19

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/17222118

Hummm, go deeper. Comic, haiku, mind maps, essay and more
https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post/164512918

I used to think my stubborn beliefs made me irrational. Turns out they make me human. New podcast explores why believing feels more like falling in love than solving equations 💭❤️

#philosophy #psychology #beliefs #emotions #cognitivescience #epistemology #criticalthinking #consciousness #rationality

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

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/du-travail-productiviste-a-la-megamachine-alienation-rationalite-instrumentale-et-domination-systemique/

Jesus, for the love of God,
please don't take the wheel.
It's my life, my conscience, dawg.
You're not part of the deal.

Your driving record's shit.
Your Human Rights history, worse.
Blind faith needs to
wiped out like a curse.

Don't wanna live forever.
Don't want a plot on the moon.
End lies, slick and clever.
Not a minute too soon!

To kick you out, I'm ready.
Looks like you're dead already!

https://paper.wf/penumbrage/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian

#Xtianity #Christ #Jesus #Christian #religion #rationality #history #myth

New #AI #preprint:

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.

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.22987

Section 2. It's Not [Reasoning Model] Size That Matters; It's How You Use Them

On superficial signs of reflection such as chains of thought.

Conclusion

The first key claim in this paper was that reasoning architecture can matter at least as much to the success of intelligence systems as factors such as size, chains of thought, or other superficial indicators of reflection. Indeed, empirical studies of language models often find that properly dual-model systems can be more efficient than larger single-model systems. However, history reminded us that resource-intensive reasoning is not always worth it and maximizing one form of utility is unrealistic. Insofar as we care about real-world decisions and actions, we want some kind of pragmatism.

So strategic reflectivism proposed pragmatic (rather than permanent) deployment of reflective inference. Like the performance and efficiency cores of heterogenous computing systems, systems capable of switching between more and less reflective inference can outperform standard inference systems and perpetually reflective systems, often with less cost and time.

Importantly, …

🧠 Your Brain’s Secret Saboteurs: How Hidden Biases Hijack Your Decisions

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/17193110  

Thanks for listening today!

https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post/163969786 May 23, 2025 • (S4 34) • 54:38

You think you’re in control. You weigh pros and cons, mull over options, and make choices you’re sure are rational. But what if your brain is quietly betraying you?

#BehavioralScience #CognitivePsychology #DecisionMaking #ProspectTheory #Biases #MindHacks #Thinking #Psychology #HumanMind #Rationality

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in #rationality.
—Bertrand Russell

______________________
#atheism #faith #god

#Atheism Destroys #Reason?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCGdj35GzvE

#atheist #rationality #religion #cult #philosophy

Stuck in emotions long after an event? Emotional stubbornness can cloud your judgment. Balance your energy to break free from emotional rigidity and regain clarity. https://goo.su/fPWAzus
#Emo #rationality #stubbornness

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

A quotation from Orwell

The views that a writer holds must be compatible with sanity, in the medical sense, and with the power of continuous thought: beyond that what we ask of him is talent, which is probably another name for conviction.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-09), “Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels,” Polemic, No. 5

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #author #conviction #rationality #sanity #talent #writer #writing

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

We must distinguish between a mood and its intellectual expression. There is no arguing with mood; it can be changed by some fortunate event, or by a change in our bodily condition, but it cannot be changed by argument.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 2 “Byronic Unhappiness” (1930)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/763…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #analysis #argument #emotion #mood #rationality #thought

Does awareness of intuition's fallibility help people avoid faulty intuitions?

#Teaching students #DualProcessTheory didn't help them avoid faulty intuitions about #physics problems.

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.21.010135

#edu #cogSci #bias #debiasing #psychology #epistemology #rationality

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).

https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.13114

Figure 9. Predicted skepticism of alternative medicine scores as a function of analytic thinking (AT) and the importance of rationality (IRS) (Studies 1 and 2 Combined). SD = standard deviation.

"I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?"

E. Yudkowsky, "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" (Chapter 7)

https://hpmor.com/chapter/7

#harrypotter #rationality #science #philosophy

European superstate, killing joke

I'm a Judeo Christian morality
With a Greco Roman intellect
It's the way we're short-wired
It's a civilizing force that demands respect

From the Baltic to the straits of Gibraltar
A blue flag gold star sparks a brand new empire
Ours to build, ours the choice

I'm in an European Super State
Every citizen required to debate
I'm in an European Super State
Every citizen required to debate

Why are the proud descendants of Plato
Paying off more debts accommodating NATO?
We the caretakers of democracy
No longer tolerate this hypocrisy

Baltic to the straits of Gibraltar
A blue flag gold star sparks a brand new empire
Ours to build, ours the choice

I'm in an European Super State
Every citizen required to debate
I'm in an European Super State
Every citizen required to debate

Old Europe
Old Europe
Old Europe
Old Europe
Old Europe
Old Europe

I'm a Judeo Christian morality
With a Greco Roman intellect
It's the way we're short-wired
It's a civilizing force that demands respect

From the Baltic to the Straits of Gibraltar
A blue flag gold star sparks a brand new empire
Ours to build, ours the choice

I'm in an European Super State
Every citizen required to debate
I'm in an European Super State
Every citizen required to debate

https://youtu.be/71POjwXIBKw?si=_4dn1PCbtcS68YuK

#EU #europe #commerce #tariffs #democracy #defenders #reason #rationality #science #tech

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".

https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/another-country

@histodons @psychology @socialpsych @ukraine @israel

#disillusionment #disgust #power #leadership #traitors #personalSafety #feelings #emotions #indignation #moralBeauty #beauty #values #principles #morals #debate #rationality #faith #beliefs #USWars #lawAndOrder #ruleOfLaw #internationalLaw #CambridgeSpies #Cambridge #spies #ColdWar #psychology #Stalin #cult #personalityCult #hagiography #history #ruthlessness #proZionism #WeStandWithIsrael #StandWithIsrael #masculinity #longRead #geopolitics #Zelensky #Ukraine

#Rationality

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