I was just shaving my chest when I started ruminating on this convo with @SimianSunny I think there's something interesting here The idea of classifying groups by the method of generating knowledge or evaluating information Epistemological Cultures https://twitter.com/SimianSunny/status/1304605898153897984?s=19 …
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I think this class of exercises is (i) a major strand of what a lot of rats and adjacents are up to, and (ii) sadly, suddenly very socially important
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(i) first Greater Rationality /does/ have a bunch of rarefied--I won't call them insular, that's not quite right--ideas about epistemology
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I was never much of a LW Rationalist, and I won't try to characterize their approach, but historically they've liked things like conceptual Bayesianism, prediction tracking, and timeless decision theory, whatever that is And they spent a lot of time thinking about Bias
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Postrats as I understand the grouping (ymmv) by contrast were--this is one framing--less interested in specific methods than the means by which methods are selected. I shall give some examples.
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@Meaningness has a pretty core outline of one framework here, mulling the nature and generation of a fluid mindset; an emphasis on system selection, rather than within-system optimization you might analogize this with game theory and mechanism designhttps://meaningness.com/metablog/stem-fluidity-bridge …1 reply 0 retweets 25 likesShow this thread -
one thing to draw attention to is that in a sense this is a Kegan 6 (
) essay: how do we design a system that enables people to develop to think in this metasystematic manner?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
that's what I always wondered about stage 5: how do you pick the system
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