Fluidity

By Matt Arnold

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After the collapse of the 20th-century systematic mode of social organization, how can we move from our internet-enabled atomized mode, toward a fluid mode? We take problems of meaning-making, typically considered spiritual, and turn them into practical problems, which are more tractable. "Meaningness" begins with this episode: https://fluidity.libsyn.com/an-appetizer-purpose "Meaningness And Time" begins with this episode: https://fluidity.libsyn.com/meaningness-and-time-how-meaning-fell-apart 'In The Cells Of The Eggplant" begins with this episode: https://fluidity.libsyn.com/intro-to-metarationality You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold This is a nonfiction audiobook narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, David Chapman. Full text at: https://meaningness.com Please email me at fluidity@hey.com.

Episode Date
Limits To Experimental Induction
Apr 21, 2024
Bonus Episode 8: Going Down On The Phenomenon
Apr 17, 2024
The Role Of Intelligence In Science
Apr 07, 2024
Radical Progress Without Scary AI
Mar 10, 2024
AI Is Net Harmful, and, A Negative Public Image For AI
Feb 18, 2024
Spurn Artificial Ideology
Feb 04, 2024
Announcement: Opening Awareness, Opening Rationality Group
Jan 29, 2024
Fight DOOM AI with SCIENCE! and ENGINEERING!!
Jan 14, 2024
Mistrust Machine Learning
Dec 31, 2023
Develop And Mandate Intrinsic Cybersecurity
Dec 17, 2023
Practical Actions You Can Take Against AI Risks, and, End Digital Surveillance
Dec 10, 2023
Social Collapse: Apocalyptic Incoherence
Dec 03, 2023
Who Is In control Of AI? What An AI Apocalypse May Look Like
Nov 12, 2023
Apocalypse Now - At War With The Machines
Nov 06, 2023
Fear Power, Not Intelligence
Oct 22, 2023
Artificial General Intelligence And Transformative AI
Oct 15, 2023
Motivation, Morals, and Monsters
Oct 08, 2023
Diverse Forms Of Agency
Sep 18, 2023
Autonomous AI Agents
Sep 10, 2023
Mind-Like AI
Sep 04, 2023
Scary AI, and, Superintelligence
Aug 27, 2023
Only You Can Stop An AI Apocalypse
Aug 20, 2023
Resisting Or Embracing Metarationality
Jun 04, 2023
A Fully Metarational Workplace
May 22, 2023
Doing Being Rational
May 14, 2023
Upgrade Your Cargo Cult For The Win
May 07, 2023
What They Don’t Teach You At STEM School
Apr 23, 2023
Ignorant, Irrelevant, And Inscrutable
Apr 16, 2023
Judging Whether A System Applies
Apr 09, 2023
Part 4: Taking Meta-Rationality Seriously
Apr 02, 2023
Ontological Remodeling
Mar 26, 2023
Hiatus Today
Mar 19, 2023
The Parable Of The Pebbles
Mar 12, 2023
Taking Rationality Seriously
Mar 05, 2023
Hiatus This Week
Feb 26, 2023
Reasonable Ontology
Feb 19, 2023
Instructed Activity
Feb 12, 2023
Reasonable Believings
Feb 05, 2023
The Purpose Of Meaning
Jan 22, 2023
Meaningful Perception
Jan 15, 2023
Accountability And Routine
Jan 08, 2023
Aspects Of Reasonableness - and - Reasonableness Is Meaningful Activity
Jan 01, 2023
Part Two: Taking Reasonableness Seriously
Dec 25, 2022
Acting On The Truth, And Overcoming Post-Rationalist Nihilism
Dec 18, 2022
Probabilism, Part Two
Dec 11, 2022
Probabilism, Part One
Dec 04, 2022
Propositions, Hypothesis Generation, and Unknown Unknowns
Nov 27, 2022
Is This An Eggplant Which I See Before Me?
Nov 20, 2022
Objects, Objectively
Nov 13, 2022
Reference And Identity
Nov 06, 2022
Overdriving Approximation
Oct 30, 2022
When Will You Go Bald?
Oct 23, 2022
Are Eggplants Fruits?
Oct 16, 2022
Reductio Ad Reductionem
Oct 09, 2022
The Truth Of The Matter
Oct 02, 2022
Logic
Sep 25, 2022
Positive And Logical
Sep 18, 2022
Rationalism's Responses To Trouble
Sep 11, 2022
Taking Rationality Seriously
Sep 04, 2022
A Credibility Revolution In The Post-Truth Era
Aug 28, 2022
Bonus Metacast: Fluidity Forum Glossary
Aug 25, 2022
Rationality And Refrigerators
Aug 21, 2022
Intro To Metarationality
Aug 14, 2022
Bonus Metacast: Fluidity Forum Announcement
Aug 10, 2022
Miserabilism, Angst, and Existentialism
Jul 21, 2022
The Varieties Of Special Meaning, Part 7: 180 Proof
Jul 10, 2022
Varieties Of Special Meaning, Part 6: Justification
Jul 04, 2022
Varieties Of Special Meaning, Part 5: Objectivity
Jun 26, 2022
Eternalist Ploys
Jun 19, 2022
The Cofounders, Part 2: Epilogue
Jun 12, 2022
Bonus Metacast: Pretending To Believe, Part 2
Jun 08, 2022
The Cofounders, Part 1
Jun 05, 2022
Bonus Metacast: Pretending To Believe
Jun 01, 2022
Fluidity
May 29, 2022
Atomization
May 22, 2022
Archipelago
May 15, 2022
Subcultures
May 08, 2022
Completing The Countercultures
May 01, 2022
Wreckage: The Culture War
Apr 24, 2022
Counter-cultures Thick And Wide - And - Why Both Countercultures Failed
Apr 17, 2022
Modern Mythologies, & Fundamentalism Is Countercultural Modernism
Apr 10, 2022
Rotating Politics 90 Degrees Clockwise
Apr 03, 2022
The Personal Is Political
Mar 27, 2022
Rejecting Rationality, Reinventing Religion, Reconfiguring The Self
Mar 20, 2022
Renegotiating Self And Society
Mar 13, 2022
Hippies And Evangelicals: Monist & Dualist Countercultures
Mar 06, 2022
A Bridge To Meta-Rationality Vs. Civilizational Collapse
Feb 28, 2022
Countercultures: Modernity's Last Gasp
Feb 20, 2022
The Collapse Of Rational Certainty
Feb 13, 2022
Systems Of Meaning All In Flames
Feb 08, 2022
Invented Traditions And Timeworn Futures
Jan 30, 2022
The Glory Of Systems
Jan 24, 2022
A Gigantic Chart That Explains Absolutely Everything
Jan 16, 2022
Meaningness And Time - How Meaning Fell Apart
Jan 09, 2022
Holiday Hiatus
Jan 02, 2022
Glossary, and Holiday Hiatus
Dec 26, 2021
Vaster Than Ideology
Dec 21, 2021
Varieties Of Special Meaning, Part 4- No Cosmic Meaning
Dec 12, 2021
Varieties Of Special Meaning, Part 3
Dec 05, 2021
Varieties Of Special Meaning, Part 2
Nov 28, 2021
Varieties Of Special Meaning, Part 1
Nov 21, 2021
Nihilistic Reasoning Errors
Nov 14, 2021
What Nihilism Is Not
Nov 07, 2021
The Nihilist Apocalypse
Oct 31, 2021
Nihilism Is Black Magic - and - Sexy Cynicism And Nihilist Elitism
Oct 24, 2021
The False Promise Of Nihilism - and - What Is It Like To Be A Nihilist?
Oct 17, 2021
Bonus Metacast: Nihilism
Oct 14, 2021
Materialism
Oct 10, 2021
Mission
Oct 03, 2021
Purpose
Sep 28, 2021
Selfness
Sep 20, 2021
Unity and Diversity
Sep 13, 2021
Stabilizing The Complete Stance
Sep 06, 2021
Open-Ended Curiosity
Aug 29, 2021
Wonder
Aug 22, 2021
Finding The Complete Stance - And, Textures Of The Complete Stance
Aug 15, 2021
Peak Experiences - Plus, Obstacles To The Complete Stance
Aug 08, 2021
The Complete Stance
Aug 04, 2021
190-Proof Nihilism vs Lite Nihilism
Jul 25, 2021
Nihilism
Jul 18, 2021
Rumcakes and Rainbows
Jul 11, 2021
Developing ethical, social, and cognitive competence
Jul 05, 2021
Accomplishing And Exiting Eternalism
Jun 27, 2021
Eternalist Systems
Jun 20, 2021
Eternalism Is Harmful
Jun 13, 2021
Eternalism As The Only Salvation From Nihilism
Jun 06, 2021
The Wheel Of Fortune
May 30, 2021
The Fantasy Of Control
May 24, 2021
Bonus Metacast: Sacred and Secular
May 19, 2021
The Promise Of Certainty & The Illusion Of Understanding
May 16, 2021
Eternalism
May 09, 2021
Meaningfulness
May 02, 2021
The Puzzle Of Meaningness - Full Cast Performance
Apr 25, 2021
A Schematic Overview Of All Stances
Apr 18, 2021
Bonus Metacast: Book Planning
Apr 14, 2021
The Big Three Stance Combinations
Apr 11, 2021
Relating To Stances
Apr 04, 2021
The Psychological Anatomy Of A Stance
Mar 28, 2021
Meaningness As A Liberating Practice
Mar 21, 2021
Confusion, Completion, Misery, and Joy
Mar 14, 2021
Accepting Nebulosity, And, Not A General Dialectic
Mar 07, 2021
Fixation & Denial - Confused Stances Come In Pairs - No Middle Way
Feb 28, 2021
Nebulosity and Pattern
Feb 21, 2021
Stances Trump Systems, And Stances Are Unstable
Feb 15, 2021
Misunderstanding Meaningness Makes Many Miserable
Feb 07, 2021
What Is Meaningness?
Jan 31, 2021
Preview: Eternalism and Nihilism
Jan 25, 2021
An Appetizer: Purpose
Jan 17, 2021