I feel very much like this too. If we could find another person who feels like this I’d suggest putting it on the list of rationalist vices because I think its possible to stray too far in the direction. At least I’ve come to consider this inclination a flaw in myself. I rarely want to learn about anything that seems historically contingent, or not on the path to understanding the full picture. But IRL those are often the most important things to learn, or important things to look at to understand stuff. Like learning vim and unix commands hahaha. Maybe someone will get so good at vim they see the underlying structure of the whole of reality reflected in that program, but I doubt it.
I feel very much like this too. If we could find another person who feels like this I’d suggest putting it on the list of rationalist vices because I think its possible to stray too far in the direction. At least I’ve come to consider this inclination a flaw in myself. I rarely want to learn about anything that seems historically contingent, or not on the path to understanding the full picture. But IRL those are often the most important things to learn, or important things to look at to understand stuff. Like learning vim and unix commands hahaha. Maybe someone will get so good at vim they see the underlying structure of the whole of reality reflected in that program, but I doubt it.