Matt Arnold @matt@penguicon.social

Matt Arnold's blog: Web Development Skill Progression https://nemorathwald.dreamwidth.org/402731.html

In this episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast, "The Varieties Of Special Meaning, Part 4- No Cosmic Meaning."

Intuitions of “cosmic meaning” root in hunger for personal significance, and in encounters with vastness.

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/varieties-of-special-meaning-part-4-no-cosmic-meaning

https://meaningness.com/no-cosmic-meaning

Matt Arnold's blog: I Had A Nightmare About Apollo Mojave's Second Coat https://nemorathwald.dreamwidth.org/402521.html

The second page narrated in this episode: "No transcendent meaning". If meaning lives only in Neverland, we can’t make much use of it. Fortunately, it’s here, now.

https://meaningness.com/no-transcendent-meaning

The first page narrated in this episode: "No absolute meaning". Are you adult enough to accept that the world offers no absolute guarantees?

https://meaningness.com/no-absolute-meaning

On this episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "No absolute meaning" and "No transcendent meaning".

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/varieties-of-special-meaning-part-2

The third page narrated in this episode: "No extra-special fancy meanings". Nihilism rightly denies objective, ultimate, transcendent, absolute, cosmic, and eternal meanings. What is left?

https://meaningness.com/no-special-meaning

The second page narrated in this episode: "Not really meaningful". "Nothing REALLY means anything" sounds plausible when you feel nihilistic. What does "really" mean, though?

https://meaningness.com/no-real-meaning

The first page narrated in this episode: "Lite nihilism." A step on the way to the complete stance, lite nihilism includes a valuable, accurate analysis of the failure of eternalism.

https://meaningness.com/lite-nihilism

On this episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast, three segments: "Lite nihilism", "Not really meaningful", and "No extra-special fancy meanings".

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/varieties-of-special-meaning-part-1

Matt Arnold's blog: Presenting At The Critical Rationalist Weekend https://nemorathwald.dreamwidth.org/402403.html

Matt Arnold's blog: When To Be Impressed By Antiquity https://nemorathwald.dreamwidth.org/402001.html

Another link mentioned in this episode:

"Finding Meaning In An Imperfect World" by Iddo Landau

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072FHQXPF/?tag=meaningness-20

Links mentioned in this episode:

Scott Alexander’s blog post “Proving too much”.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/13/proving-too-much/

On this episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Nihilistic Reasoning Errors"

The many justifications for nihilism rely on a handful of mistaken patterns of reasoning.

https://meaningness.com/nihilist-fallacies

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/nihilistic-reasoning-errors

Another link mentioned in this episode:

The TV Tropes page "Straw Nihilist".

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrawNihilist

Links mentioned in this episode:

In "Postmodernism vs. The Pomoid Cluster" John Nerst analyzes the relationship between postmodernism as an academic theory, and “pomo” as a popular way of relating to meaningness.

https://areomagazine.com/2018/06/30/postmodernism-vs-the-pomo-oid-cluster/

On this episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "What Nihilism Is Not"

“Nihilism is inevitable, but not a problem.” This is mistaken: it makes you miserable and ineffective, and erodes social and cultural capacity.

Nihilism, like botulism, is not an ideology or conceptual system. It is a stance: an emotionally-charged way of being.

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/what-nihilism-is-not

Matt Arnold's blog: My Nowhere https://nemorathwald.dreamwidth.org/401739.html

What a wonderful day. Virtually attending an all-staff meeting for Worldcon. I'm also getting involved in a Critical Rationalists Weekend in Philadelphia in the first week of December.