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Meaningness

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Meta-rationality, moral force, and nobility in public health policy
The WHO’s covid bungling, and Team Airborne’s rescue, illustrate meta-rational ethics.
Sep 9 • David Chapman
Meta-rational failure (and success) in the covid crisis
The scientific revolution that forced changes on the World Health Organization.
Aug 30 • David Chapman
What my substack is about
I made a new Topics page, so you can find out; and can find posts you find interesting.
Aug 1 • David Chapman
Wakeup call: The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident
Mandate intrinsic cybersecurity now.
Jul 29 • David Chapman
How “HIV is the cause of AIDS” is true
A case study in meta-rational epistemology.
Jul 25 • David Chapman
🇺🇸 Happy 250th! 🗽
Have a wonderful time!
Jul 4 • David Chapman
Probability theory, understood meta-rationally
Ask: how and why to use it; and whether some other approach to uncertainty would be better.
Jun 29 • David Chapman
Why I left academia: love letters to Liota
Dominance and submission games are tiresome and ugly (unless they're sexual play)
May 30 • David Chapman
Choosing a web framework, meta-rationally
A case study in meta-rational judgment.
May 12 • David Chapman
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Creating conduits between the visionary realm and the actual world
A ritual evoking the energy of Good King Gesar.
May 7 • David Chapman
Thought soup poisoned with metaphysics
Re-seeing to get the Ancient Greeks out of our cultural cognitive grammar
May 2 • David Chapman
1:02:07
Meaning: lost, or muddled by metaphysics?
Andrew Conner and I explore similarities and differences between John Vervaeke’s work and mine
Apr 28 • David Chapman and Andrew Conner
Yidam: extraordinary relational possibilities
A brief introduction to some of the Evolving Ground tantric practices
Apr 25 • David Chapman and Charlie Awbery
How to make a mala for Vajrayana practice
Technical equipment for Buddhist tantra. (Not a New Age knickknack.)
Apr 11 • David Chapman
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Essays on meaning, technical work, Vajrayana Buddhism, and self in society.
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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.
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