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 agree on both counts. I find it mysterious that neither of us understands the other. I think I do understand typical rationalists… Eliezer seems to me to have a unique, atypical viewpoint that I haven’t yet been able to figure out.
In both of our defenses: I’m not sure I’ve read whatever is his definitive statement (although I’ve read a fair chunk of his Sequences). And I have mostly talked around my central points rather than stating them clearly. Some people somehow grok them anyway; others don’t.
Would you agree with this statement (from a comment on EY's LW post, https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CPP2uLcaywEokFKQG/toolbox-thinking-and-law-thinking#MHyZNvoQMLZ5B2533 …)? "Probability theory doesn't extend logic and there are things in reality that logic describes well but PT doesn't, so reality is not probabilistic in its essential nature."
Attempt at translation: consider the process of making a map of some new domain. How do you decide what should be on the map? I believe this to be a prototypically meta-rational process; rationality in that domain is possible only after the map (model) is available.
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