Comment by computerphage
2 years ago
I mean there's https://meaningness.com/ which is pretty central in post-rationalist thought if you ask me, but maybe it's less central these days.
2 years ago
I mean there's https://meaningness.com/ which is pretty central in post-rationalist thought if you ask me, but maybe it's less central these days.
Wow, that's a whole little rabbit-hole.
It's got that distinctly rationalist style of writing where they dedicate loads of words to these grand overly-detailed models and then skim over the places in their argument where they actually need to be rigorous. The entire argument behind one of the book's most important claims—that it's impossible for meaning to be subjective—seems to be left as implied by an anecdote about gambling at a casino. I haven't even been able to find a definition of "meaning" anywhere, so the implications of that anecdote end up being really difficult to parse.