“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 …
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Replying to @Meaningness @nostalgebraist
It just occured to me that rationalisms are kind of deontological epistemologies. Not only the business of trying to reduce cognition to adherence to rules but also emotional dynamics seems similar. Does it make sense to you?
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Replying to @brewingsense @nostalgebraist
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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Replying to @Meaningness @nostalgebraist
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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