to me this is one of your clearest expressions of how rationalism falls short
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I was about to say it’s the clearest example of how he doesn’t seem to get it.
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Where is this piece of writing from?
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Draft of my meta-rationality book
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This is basically System I vs System II thinking, right?
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No, although there’s some similarity... it would take quite a lot of context to explain the difference, which I haven’t written up yet.
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This is always my issue with the trolley problem. It’s impossible for me to imagine what I would do, ethically or otherwise, when experiencing that exact situation would likely leave me too dumbstruck to act at all
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This plus the artificiality of the scenario makes it kind of an antipattern. It's formalized and involves a single discrete decision, so we use it as a metric to test moral theories. But what if optimizing for performance on this metric results in worse performance elsewhere?
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