Yesterday I finished a draft of Part II of my book on meta-rationality, yay! I was able to take part of November and most of December out to write; the first extended period since August 2018, when I finished the draft of Part I.
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Tldr: Given a carved, crisp model of the world, rationality tells you what to do. But translating from the world (nebulous) to those models (context dependent) is a different matter altogether?
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Yes! Plus, the relationship between the math and world has to be on-goingly maintained, which requires reworking the world to fit the math. (There’s lots of methods for doing this.) And also you have to somehow figure out what sort of math could work. Also, actually doing math!
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In the book, Rationality: From AI to Zombies, a detailed account of the same story is given as a conversation (runs for 20 pages). Is the pebble story well known among AI researchers?
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Yes, I footnoted that
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There's also the nagging Protestant work shame ethic buried in there The obsession with rationality (as well as purity, virginity, innocence, perfection) comes from that nonsense
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Oh, that’s an interesting insight! Seems right
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This is a an excellent critique of the errors of representationalism, but it doesn't tell you how "rationality actually works". It tells you how it doesn't work, and thus why neither meaning nor justification is a matter of "rationality".
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Hmm. I’m using “rationality” to refer to specifically formal or technical or systematic rationality. Perhaps that is the disconnect here? It sounds like you have an alternative you would like to advocate?
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