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.
The Eggplant book is supposed to lead from rationality to meta-rationality in easy steps, so it may help. Unfortunately it’s now ~300 pages and still growing, so whether anyone will read it I don’t know!
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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