Finally reading Yudkowsky, though I don't expect to get much out of it. The framing of beliefs as useless if they don't directly predict experience is bizarre to me. Beliefs are like nets: you store some, deploy some, and only some catch anything
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In a sense all progress in thought has been a feedback loop of iterative capture of material propositions by seemingly metaphysical nonsense. I refuse to write off nascent proto-belief of the type Yudkowsky decries as "irrational". We eat plants, not soil, but plants grow in soil
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