“If your method requires infinite storage space and computation speed to use, the problem is not that finite beings aren’t sufficiently rational, it’s that your method doesn’t work.”
(@nostalgebraist re Bayes, but applies to many rationalist fantasies.)http://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/161645122124/bayes-a-kinda-sorta-masterpost …
Hmm, I’m not sure… say more, maybe? Bayesian rationalism is similar to utilitarianism, formally. I can’t make any sense of critical rationalism, but maybe it’s similar to virtue ethics?
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I meant that it reduces coginition to following certain rules, in the way deontology reduces morality to following rules. But maybe the analogies with utilitarianism are stronger. Anyway, self-flagelation for falling short of an impossible and impractical ideal ensues.
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Yes, definitely that!
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