That weird obsession with decision-making.pic.twitter.com/4odgISsJpz
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Perhaps a better analogy: why are you worried about how the boiler behaves if it gets overpressurized? Why not just focus on how well it runs the rest of the time?
I don't really get this analogy. As I understand David, he's saying that rationalism focuses on how to maximize EV at explicit decision points, but ignores how to deal with facets of the system that don't show up as explicit choices
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Ah, yes, you just said better what I was trying to express in my last tweet
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What meta-rational principles are you advocating deference to when thinking of 'how to deal with facets of the system that don't show up as explicit choices'?
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It's not [rational = bugs] vs. [metarational = working smoothly], but rather [rational = choice points] vs. [metarational = total behavior of the system]
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Yes! And not just total behavior of system, but how it fits into its context, and the design space of alternative systems and possible revisions
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