This is not because humans obey the prescriptions of decision theory. It is because humans are making things that can be viewed as decisions. This is not because human beliefs are coherent. It's because humans can be well-viewed as believing things even if incoherently.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @Meaningness and
It seems to me that you don't understand the very abstract use that is being made of decision theory. It's not a recipe or an algorithm. It's a generalization relating coherent or incoherent behavior to performance, making far more minimal assumptions than you seem to think.
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Well… I *think* I understand this; but I may be wrong! We clearly have very different cognitive styles, which makes it difficult for us to understand each other.
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Replying to @Meaningness @ESYudkowsky and
Returning to your Facebook post, I take it that it is an attempt to characterize the difference (Law vs Toolbox). I don’t think that is accurate; I think I understand and use both of those ways of thinking. But, I can’t be sure. And I don’t have a good alternative model!
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Replying to @Meaningness @ESYudkowsky and
Btw that you think you use both styles possibly suggests that you are a toolbox thinker, according to the original argument. (The argument might be wrong, but that is a separate point.)
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Replying to @MimeticValue @Meaningness and
This discussion has left the level of submitting to outside authority of thought about 400 years ago (and corresponds to going to Kegan 4). They are not talking about human authority, but whether there is a mathematical law of correct thinking one must submit to once one finds it
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Let us remove this sub discussion to the DMs if you are interested in having it. The main thread is one of the more important things I read on Twitter this year.
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