I made a throwaway comment a few weeks ago about projecting complex moral systems onto the lower-dimensional space of politics, and now I’m obsessed with this idea.
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A price is projecting a bunch of complicated high-dimensional things onto the set of positive integers. Practice has more dimensions than performance. I bet everything is category theory underneath.
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Replying to @ByrneHobart
I have a similar recurring thought, but i don't understand category theory so the fancy math I have in mind is karhunen-loeve expansions
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the gist: political ideologies are basis function expansions. the first principle component of libertarianism is consent, for example. then other concepts (basis functions) help to fill in the leftover gaps. but they get messier and harder to understand as you go.
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you can't use all infinitely many basis functions/concepts required to fully recapitulate morality, so you truncate. Use a large finite number. The problem is that ideologues truncate after only one or two basis functions. "Is it moral? Well it is consensual."
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Replying to @metapotat
Applications to ideologies that I am less friendly to are left to the reader
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yes to it being linear algebra rather than category theory also something something moral foundations theory
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calling KL expansions linear algebra is such a neg
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Replying to @metapotat @ejlflop
next you'll say you learned RKHSs in high school
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