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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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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A natural law is simply a truth. To not be bound by natural laws in your expectations means that you are not bound by truth.
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shush the big kids have muted us already
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