y/n? 1. The LessWrong/etc. account of symbols/concepts/reality doesn’t say where the concepts/ontology come from. 2. Where the concepts/ontology come from is the only hard or interesting part. [...] N. Therefore, the LW account is not just wrong but completely wrong and also bad.
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I still have concerns about gatekeeping, unevenly applies standards, or dismissal based in part on some non-standard usage of terms. The project might not have been an ivory-tower project, if that makes sense. But possibly used as straw target for academic in-group signaling.
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I for one could not give less of a shit about rats reinventing old philosophy without sufficient genuflection to the ancestors or whatever. I'm just frustrated that all most rats want to do is sit around and talk about stuff at great length (which, in retrospect, duh)
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that’s where my handle comes from lol
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I feel subtweeted, too.
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