Sources: epistemology

Entertaining and useful summary mapping the relative locations of internet Rationalists (Scott Alexander, Yudkowsky, Thiel/Musk…) and Post-Rationalists (Venkatesh Rao, David Chapman, Jordan Peterson…) and how the tribes and metatribes got where they are. Amusing and occasionally surprising.

Although The Structure of Scientific Revolutinos, his most popular work, was published in 1962, Thomas Kuhn’s ideas still permeate a lot of talk about scientific knowledge and history. It always seemed to me that a lot of representations of his idea of a ‘paradigm shift’ couldn’t possibly be accurate as they often sounded too simple and metaphysically naive — this review goes some way toward addressing that sense and seems mostly to agree with it.