I’d put you in a cluster with Lahwran and Said Achmiz on this, if that helps clarify the gestalt I’m trying to identify. By contrast, I’d say that the cluster Benito’s pointing to—which I’d say mainly publicly includes me, Jessicata, Zvi Mowshowitz, and Romeo, though obviously also Michael Vassar—is organized around the idea that if you honestly apply loose gestalt thinking, it can very efficiently and accurately identify structures in the world—all of which can ultimately be reconciled—but that this kind of honesty necessarily involves reprogramming ourselves to not be such huge tools, and most people, well, haven’t done that, so they end up having to pick sides between perception and logic.
I’d put you in a cluster with Lahwran and Said Achmiz on this, if that helps clarify the gestalt I’m trying to identify. By contrast, I’d say that the cluster Benito’s pointing to—which I’d say mainly publicly includes me, Jessicata, Zvi Mowshowitz, and Romeo, though obviously also Michael Vassar—is organized around the idea that if you honestly apply loose gestalt thinking, it can very efficiently and accurately identify structures in the world—all of which can ultimately be reconciled—but that this kind of honesty necessarily involves reprogramming ourselves to not be such huge tools, and most people, well, haven’t done that, so they end up having to pick sides between perception and logic.