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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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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simpolism @simpolismReplying to @chaosprime @VesselOfSpirit and 2 othersOne might say that the magic of philosophy is compressing ideas you already had. See the preface to Wittgenstein's "Tractatus": "This book will perhaps only be understood by those who have themselves already thought the thoughts which are expressed in it—or similar thoughts."1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
ooh yeah publication before literature search does induce a bit of cringe doesn't it
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Realtalk, I have a ton of respect for the researcher who invented calculus in 1994.http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/17/2/152 …
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the absolute lad
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