rationality
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Books or essays that answer each others' questions
For now I'm mostly going to loosely connect a few sources… › DD: The Evolution of Culture by David Deutsch says a bunc…
- both talk about the role of rationality and how it relates to memes, in different ways
For now I'm mostly going to loosely connect a few sources… › DD: The Evolution of Culture by David Deutsch says a bunc…
- and both talk about ways in which the culture itself can "know" things the individuals don't, and the implications that has for things like rationality, creativity, etc
Podcast summaries
With Tasshin Fogleman — Podcast with Tasshin Fogleman Tra… › Outline of ideas discussed. (I'm M, Tasshin is T):
- 37:25 - 47:03 - Meeting Eric - connecting rationalism and 'trust dancing'. rationality Eric Chisholm Circling
March 22nd, 2021
- I read some chunks of this huge mess of an exchange between David Chapman and Eliezer Yudkowsky on twitter, which is largely visible scrolling up from here:
- and at one point Eliezer Yudkowsky questions David Chapman's claim that people think bayes rules is central to probability, and some guy brilliantly manages to find this tweet from EY himself just 6 weeks prior saying:
- this is him utterly equating the two, as far as I can tell! (and, what's more, kind of implying that others are embarrassingly naive for not realizing they're the same)
- Nate Soares seems the most able to actually bridge the conversation and seriously try to figure out where they're talking past each other
- summary from Nate of next steps plausibly worth taking if the motivation existed which it does not appear to
- a tweet of mine that's relevant here, specifically about Bayes Theorem