June 14th, 2021
- thinking about NNTD and some sense in which it only sorta tells you what will work... mostly tells you what won't work
- that's not necessarily true on balance but it's an interesting frame
- and it relates to this there's no way to communicate correctly or incorrectly - there's just what works in context and what doesn't work
- ah yeah, and that page title sentence is almost wiser than it knows - it's not "what works and doesn't work, in context", it's "what works in context, and what doesn't work [ever]"
- the "ever" bit is interesting, like obviously someone could disprove that with a single example, but part of what's going on here is that if I saw something purporting to be such an example, I'd have a high prior that what's going on is actually some kind of compartmentalization/layering/naive trust
- could of course be wrong about that but yeah
- and some things are more thoroughly written off as "not gonna work" by NNTD than others
- improbable and impossible-[according to this model] are different
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- may relate to chapman's bit about committing to confused stances - I tweeted him some questions about this June 14th, 2021ish