In which @ESYudkowsky rediscovers (a piece of) Aristotelian Virtue Ethics: "Don't lie when a normal highly honest person wouldn't..." https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xdwbX9pFEr7Pomaxv/meta-honesty-firming-up-honesty-around-its-edge-cases …
"Aristotle's suggestion is not to imitate a specific person, but the theoretical virtuous agent."https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/5v7cvt/virtue_ethics_on_lying_murderer_at_the_door/de0c435/ …
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Right, like that quote from Tractatus: https://twitter.com/simpolism/status/999307459419430912 … But, I dunno, I guess I'd personally prefer to search for prior art/works to build on before publishing my own essay about whatever idea I'd come up with.
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ooh yeah publication before literature search does induce a bit of cringe doesn't it
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that's why i conduct literature search on my brilliant conceptual innovations by tweeting them out off the cuff and waiting for somebody to tell me "uhm sweatie that's Thales of Miletus"
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the number of favourites corresponds to the page number, retweets to the line, replies to the volume
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i absolutely believe in black-boxing and building on prior art; I in no way want to know how a car works if I know how to *operate* one.
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absolutely flawless policy as long as none of your abstractions are leaky
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spoiler alert: they are not
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1/Learning is reinventing - just faster. An increasing issue with the transmission of culture is the sheer level of noise. This is particularly acute in areas of knowledge that require practice. [I've no doubt, for example, we've lost much of the classical art of rhetoric.]
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2/there are incentive structures that could help foster the retention and development of practical knowledge & local knowledge. But they are but little developed -- the focus is rather on conferring sheepskins & the appearance of expertise.
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