2/ The reason this matters is that rationality’s failure modes are not the ones rationalists expect.
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3/ Rationalists’ expected failure modes: parameter uncertainty, incomplete information of known types, insufficient computation power, etc.
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4/ Rationality actually works through intelligent interpretation of inherently ambiguous rules in concrete but ambiguous situations.
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5/ Some typical rational failure modes: model vocabulary fails to make relevant distinctions; sensible rule misinterpreted in specific case;
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6/ major aspects of circumstances were unexpectedly not accounted for by the model *at all*—it’s not even wrong, it’s entirely inapplicable;
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7/ rationally recommended course of action is infeasible, ignored, or obstructed, and next-best option is not part of the story;
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8/ relevant common-sense observations can’t be fit into the model because its vocabulary doesn’t cover them; etc. (Maybe this needs a post!)
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It does—strikes me as a superb overview. Do you know phil/historian of science Pickering's work? performative model of research
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Thanks! Don’t know it, but someone else recently recommended The mangle of practice, so I’m incrementing its priority :-)
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His recent work on cybernetics as a road not taken is powerful. Nice intro http://lifeboat.com/papers2/andrew.pickering.pdf … (pdfpic.twitter.com/AntSpf1tmO
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interesting, thanks! I read Stafford Beer’s work back in the 80s…
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