Last night I tried to describe the rationalist community to a friend who had never heard of it. I struggled, but finally settled on describing it as "A school of philosophy that arose on the internet rather than in the academy."
-
-
in my take of just the LW community, they think they have solved this with solomonoff induction. or that solomonoff induction can be fruitful here. or something. whatever it was in 2012 when I got banned for asking too many questions re: solomonoff induction,kolmorogov complexity
-
I think they’ve mostly quietly backed off from that (obviously silly) idea. They are gradually figuring things out. I’m impressed with how far they’ve come over the past five years.
- 1 more reply
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.