"To put it super crudely it's a sort of disagreement with the idea that informal rationality is just an approximation to the math instead of the other way around." - Srijit Sanyal gives the best one-line description of @Meaningness's views I've heard. Or at least I thought so?
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
Srijit’s summary is a not-altogether-accurate description of the relationship between informal rationality (“reasonableness”) and formal rationality. Text here from the definitions section of my Eggplant book, which I hope can clarify! https://meaningness.com/eggplant/terms pic.twitter.com/WqXWfc3M6R
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Replying to @Meaningness @ESYudkowsky
Reasonableness is entwined with perception and with concrete activity in ways that formal rationality isn’t and can’t be—so they have different functions. They’re not just different ways of doing the same thing. cc
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Replying to @Meaningness @ESYudkowsky
Oh god now it's here? I started disliking my explanation as soon as I saw he agreed with it, lol. Much too different a way of thinking for him to grasp so quickly. (It's a diffferent sort of "meta" than he's used to.)
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I’d be curious to see the original, if it is not inconvenient or embarrassing :) It’s really useful to see ways other people summarize/understand what I write, so I can clarify! (Was this on Facebook? I don’t have an account there…)
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