Definition of “rationalism” from the Eggplant book draft. If you identify as a rationalist, I’m curious whether you find this accurate, and if not, why not?pic.twitter.com/2cvo7478fj
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I took a quick look. Overall, it appears that neither of us feels the other is getting our respective points. I don’t think the LW post characterizes my pov accurately. This is puzzling, but seems difficult to sort out, and probably not important for either of us.
A side conversation developed a possible alternative crux: “Maybe @ESYudkowsky thinks (a) everyone has a True Objective Function, even if they aren't aware of it, or (b) everyone _ought_ to have an objective function and it's irrational not to have one.” And I disagree.
That seems off to me. I think @ESYudkowsky is saying something like — for any agent with a goal, then there exists, in theory, an objective means to asses the agent’s decision making procedure relative to an ideal (even if the ideal is unknown or uncomputable)
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