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Mundane Magic

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As you may recall from some months earlier, I think that part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe—a universe containing no ontolog…

x Mundane Magic — LessWrong Joy in the Merely Real Aesthetics Reductionism Frontpage 300 Mundane Magic by Eliezer Yudkowsky 31st Oct 2008 4 min read 97 300 As you may recall from some months earlier, I think that part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe—a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic —and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real universe and its possibilities, without disappointment. There's an old trick for combating dukkha where you make a list of thing

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