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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Replying to @simpolism @ESYudkowsky
Yudkowsky slowly and badly reinventing millennia-old concepts is so on brand for him
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Replying to @palecur @ESYudkowsky
The more historical ideas I learn, the more I see it. And I find it a little depressing, honestly. An intellectual tradition spanning thousands of years is here to engage with, and yet these bright individuals have decided to reinvent the wheel.
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i highly approve of reinventing the wheel because on some level i just don't believe you'll really understand why wheels are the way they are until you've done so, but once you do understand that you should definitely look into known art on the topic
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Replying to @chaosprime @simpolism
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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