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

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August 2026

Meta-rational failure (and success) in the covid crisis

The scientific revolution that forced changes on the World Health Organization.

Aug 30 • David Chapman

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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

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July 2026

Wakeup call: The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident

Mandate intrinsic cybersecurity now.

Jul 29 • David Chapman

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How “HIV is the cause of AIDS” is true

A case study in meta-rational epistemology.

Jul 25 • David Chapman

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🇺🇸 Happy 250th! 🗽

Have a wonderful time!

Jul 4 • David Chapman

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June 2026

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

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May 2026

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

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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

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Thought soup poisoned with metaphysics

Re-seeing to get the Ancient Greeks out of our cultural cognitive grammar

May 2 • David Chapman

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April 2026

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

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