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scott's writing makes me more and more frustrated these days. it's like i see all these ways he's edging closer and closer to the glorious light of postrationality or w/e but he never quite bites the bullet

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acidshill

@acidshill

would be interested if you feel like elaborating

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i need to do a whole thread on his recent post about jaynes but as just one example: he edges towards but never quite explicitly wonders whether modern western theory of mind might be mistaken or harmful and whether one might want a different one slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/01/boo

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i half wonder if he's doing some kind of straussian inception thing because i at least partly disagree with every single statement in this excerpt as either a descriptive or prescriptive account of how minds work

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Scott Alexander

@slatestarcodex

As a rule, I am not doing weird Straussian things. I thought I made it pretty clear that this is a standard oversimplified model of the mind children use, not the Ground Truth. If you're interpreting me as saying I agree with it, don't.

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oh this is a genuine point of confusion i had reading this b/c you don't go back to it to critique it, thanks for clarifying. i think i'd have been less confused if you'd called it "standard western theory-of-mind" and not "theory-of-mind" as if it were the only one?

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Scott Alexander

@slatestarcodex