This is a pop statement of “religious” probabilistic rationalism (if I understand it, which I’m not sure I do):https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CPP2uLcaywEokFKQG/toolbox-thinking-and-law-thinking …
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Replying to @Meaningness
Having read all the above, some thoughts: a) yes, I do find the EM jargon impenetrable. b) I think, based on my experiences as a scientist & publisher, that the "religious" form rationalism is rare enough to be discounted as a major influence on how research is done.
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I kept going back and forth in my head between True vs useful when I was reading, so let me ask a usefulness question: If EM is useful for ordinary scientists, not Bayes worshippers, doing their daily work, what sorts of things would you expect to see them do differently?
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Replying to @Meaningness @mrgunn
(very drafty text and quite repetitious I’m afraid)
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Yes, I've read that, most of meaningness, & your STEM metablog stuff. My main takeaways, in terms of changing beliefs & doing different things, have been from your Buddhist writings, though!
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Glad the Buddhism stuff has been useful to you!! When you read the Eggplant book, the relationship between the two may become obvious, although it doesn’t discuss that at all.
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Oh, I think it's already obvious - nondualism and all that, right?
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BTW, I hope I didn't sound dismissive of your work on http://meaningness.com , I just meant to say reading the Buddhism stuff helped me understand where you were coming from with the metarat stuff.
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The meaningness site did put a lot of words to things I didn't yet have words for, is very engaging and well-written, demonstrates an intellectual approach that was novel to me, there's lots to say about it!
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