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@reasonisfun

Epistemology applied to everything. 💫 Host of Reason Is Fun podcast w/ @DavidDeutschOxf 🎙️ Taking critical rationalism into life – how to improve both.

Oxford, UK reasonisfun.podbean.com Joined April 2015

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Lulie @reasonisfun Jan 1, 2022

I tweet about:
💭 philosophy (epistemology, reason)
🧠 psychology, mental blocks
🎭 emotion, inexplicit knowledge, phenomenology
👩‍🍼 culture, memetics, tradition (relationships, parenting, scientific research)
🗽 non-coercion (applied to learning & productivity)

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Lulie Verified account @reasonisfun Oct 4, 2018

'Self discipline' is a patch for being conflicted about what you want to do.

Often, productive people are interpreted as 'having discipline': able to force themselves to do the work even when it's unpleasant.

But creative productivity only ever works in *spite* of that.
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Lulie @reasonisfun 2d

You often are…

(Not Zach; people who give moral dilemmas.)

A lot of so-called rationality biases come from abstract examples that are so devoid of the details that they cannot be answered sensibly. Or the answer is misleading.

Zach Weinersmith @ZachWeiner 4d

Or, they think you're casting up philosophical dust to blind them to some sinister motive. This is especially true if you have a case that violates someone's ethical intuitions. Parfitian problems are very good at invoking this sort of anger, I've found.
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Lulie @reasonisfun Oct 29

“Bob was bottlenecked by lifelong anxiety. […] We resolved it in a single conversation.”

The right knowledge is the most powerful thing in the world.

Chris Lakin Verified account @chrislakin Sep 11, 2024

We met at a prediction market conference. He placed the bounty because his anxiety was crushing his agency and relationships.

We spoke. Now two months later, he says our one conversation helped him achieve what 8 years of talk therapy could not

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Lulie @reasonisfun Oct 29

LONDON - Nov 7th - Alexander Technique

I'm giving a workshop on effortlessness and how to be yourself in every situation.

Helpful for:
- tension or constriction (in any context)
- social anxiety
- feeling stuck in your head

Brings about: flow, ease, charisma, aliveness.

🙃 ɐʇǝɯ - 𝐿𝓊𝓁𝒾𝑒 💜🐱 @metaLulie Oct 12

this class has changed my life more than anything else

it gets u out of reactive patterns (which helps with anxiety, feeling stuck, feeling trapped in ur head) and gives a lot of the benefits of meditation but WAY faster and doing it in everyday life
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Lulie @reasonisfun Oct 28

Worrying about being bad cuts off the parts of you that can distinguish truth.