The happiness of stupidity is not closed to me. By the time I’ve made 1 rational decision (by whatever metric one wants to use) I’ll have made 100 irrational ones. Stupidity and irrationality is built into the very way I operate.
I am primarily composed stupid and irrational beliefs and I am continually creating more.
You don’t choose to be irrational, that’s the default position.
Rationality is a limited precious resource that you use to diagnose and fix problems within the irrational milieu of systems and subsystems that make up your mind.
Second order rationality would then seem to be more about avoiding wasting precious resources on things I will receive no gain and instead focus on using rationality to fix things that actually need fixing. If I spend 1 hour of rational thinking doing philosophy I’ll feel a lot better than if I spend 1 hour questioning the intentions of my SO.
Hey y’all, I come here both as a friend and with an agenda. I’m scary.
See I have a crazy pet theory… (and yes it’s a TOE, fancy that!)
...and I’d love to give it a small home on the Internet. Here?
This like to share it with you because this community seems to be be the proper blend of open minded and skeptical. Which is what the damn thing needs.
Anyways I’ve lurked for quite awhile, and you guys have been great at opening my mind to a lot of things. I figure this might be good enough and crazy enough to give something back.
As a personal note, I’m currently an engineer who is wondering if he should go back to school to become an academic. When I was a college student at a big faceless university, I was too awkward, clueless, and erratic to navigate the system in a way that got me attention so grabbed my degree and ran.
BTW I’m not one of those foaming at the mouth mofos who will debate endlessly and fruitlessly in an attacking manner toward anyone who dare criticize his crackpot theory. I’m more like “man, why does this idea have to be so damn compelling, better get it out on the web”. I’ve also posted it extremely little thus far, I do not design to spray it all over the internet.