Upgrade Your Cargo Cult For The Win

Part V of In The Cells Of The Eggplant: Taking Rational Work Seriously

Putting meta-rationality to work, in statistics, experimental science, software development, and entrepreneurship.

https://metarationality.com/applications

Richard Feynman derided "cargo cult science" that sticks to fixed systems. Innovation requires an upgrade to fluid, meta-systematic inquiry.

https://metarationality.com/upgrade-your-cargo-cult

This is one of several standalone essays by David Chapman I'm incorporating into the unwritten sections of In The Cells Of The Eggplant, for the audiobook version.

The full text of Richard Feynman's address about cargo cult science:

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

David Chapman's description of how most people can't draw a bicycle:

https://meaningness.com/understanding#bicycles

An interview with Lucy Suchman in which she mentions David Chapman and Phil Agre's work, among many other things:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200608155536/http://www.iwp.jku.at/born/mpwfst/02/www.dialogonleadership.org/Suchmanx1999.html

"Scenius, Or Communal Genius" by Kevin Kelly:

https://kk.org/thetechnium/scenius-or-comm/

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