Possibly. My interest is in “how do formal systems relate to the world.”
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Replying to @Meaningness @michaelporcelli and
The world doesn’t inherently have agents, goals, or decisions in it; those are concepts we apply to it. We can think about those in many different ways, which will have different consequences.
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Replying to @Meaningness @michaelporcelli and
DT is one way of thinking about agents, goals, and decisions, which has particular consequences at the level of constraints, completely setting aside methods. Sometimes that’s a useful way of thinking; sometimes it isn’t.
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Replying to @Meaningness @michaelporcelli and
In other words, the conceptual system itself is a tool. So, maybe
@ESYudkowsky is right after all! I do think DT is merely a tool—once you try to apply it to reality, as opposed to considering it as abstract mathematics.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Meaningness @michaelporcelli and
But, here I mean “a tool for making categorical distinctions in reality” as opposed to “a method for making decisions.”
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Replying to @Meaningness @ESYudkowsky and
Yes. It seems like you don’t have an alternate at that same level beyond “pluralism”. Does that fit?
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Replying to @michaelporcelli @ESYudkowsky and
Do you mean “an alternative method for making decisions” or “an alternative way of thinking about people and sensible activity”? There are lots of both.
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Replying to @Meaningness @ESYudkowsky and
At the level of making meaningful distinctions between methods/tools for decision making agents in general. What you seem to say is simply “more than one”
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Replying to @michaelporcelli @ESYudkowsky and
Sorry, I don’t understand that tweet
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Replying to @Meaningness @ESYudkowsky and
At level of decisions, there are a plurality of tools. At the level of analyzing “tools for decision making”, you say it’s also a plurality?
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Oh, yes, that seems probably right on both counts!
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Replying to @Meaningness @ESYudkowsky and
Cool. I hope I’ve been helpful at narrowing down your crux :)
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