Baesianiam: Bayes’ is all about the priors; we’re all about the posteriors. [Formulation Credit: ]
Possible Views
@possibleviews
Squatting in logical space since 2012.
Joined May 2012
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The Turing Point: The moment AI surpasses humans at predicting what AI will be able to do next and humanity is once again able to talk about literally anything else.
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Considering panpsychist anti-natalism: what if an electron’s life is not worth living?
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Wittgensplaining: when you tell someone how a word in their own language is used, and assure them all their confusions would dissolve if they could just understand this.
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The Repugnant (Law Review) Conclusion: “For any possible law review article, with arguments of very high quality, there could be a much longer law review article, whose impact would be higher, even though each of its arguments is barely worth stating.”
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Effective Egoism: Now in its longtermist phase, most EEs live highly regimented, largely joyless lives, pouring all resources and energy into anti-aging tech or the singularity—or nerding out in shockingly acrimonious debates about which to prioritize.
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What about ‘efficient altruism’ and it’s just advocating for laissez faire capitalism
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Attributive Consequentialism: acting morally is about bringing about the most outcomey possible outcome.
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Many possible views express herein!
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For the theoretically weary, here’s “Fundamental Theories,” my latest with @spiralbound #HappyFoolsDay to everyone trying to make sense of everything! medium.com/spiralbound/fu
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Bodhisattva Nietzscheanism: the complete dedication to helping ALL sentient entities become übermenschen
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Queer Conservatism: Gay people shouldn’t have sex until marriage. –
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Universal interrogativism: despite masquerading as propositions, ethical sentences such as "Murder is wrong" are actually questions about whether the specified action is ever justified, and thus all answers are just further questions. #possibleviews #noncognitivism
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Cynic's Answer to Fermi's Paradox: Developing spaceflight takes longer when you don't oppress any workers, and aliens are all nicer than us.
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magic 8 ball epistemology: claims to be a primary source ("As I see it, yes") but also a medium for still higher magic ("My sources say no")
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ascetic hedonism: disregard all the most meaningful worldly pleasures, make up for it with excess and intemperance in whatever's left
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Conditional theistic monism: "If god exists, only god exists" stephentweedale.wordpress.com/2017/02/18/con #philosophy #identity #parfit
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ok so you know how there's the "heckler's veto"? what if in the future there is the "murderer's veto"
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Desertarian Cannibalism: One may only eat entities that deserve to die. Only people deserve things. Ergo, one may only eat people.
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Divine contractualism: no one can reasonably reject a principle giving absolute authority to an omniscient&benevolent being
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Cyberzoroastrians, who believe that all possible programs have already been written by malicious AI's and your job is to debug them
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Clark-Chalmers Orthodoxy: Since your iPhone is merely an extension of your mind, feel free to use it during the Sabbath.
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Particularist epistemology: there are in all cases reasons for belief, but attempts to unify these (eg memory) are misguided.
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pantsychism: my pants have a mind of their own
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↬ simulationist substitutionary atonement. Christ died in the Matrix so we are saved in real life.
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Grutilitarianism: One ought maximize aggregate well-being. But only until next year. Then Kant.
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Commodificationism: It is impermissible to give away for free anything one might sell instead. #MarketsWithoutLimits
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Reverse Solipsism: The view that everyone else is real, but I am merely a figment of their imaginations.
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Steakholder Theory: Businesses should be run so as to maximize benefits to carnivores.
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Nom-cognitivism: The view that moral sentences express appetites.
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