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We're implicitly creating them by our choices. People aren't super consistent, but most often arguments when arguments aren't from definitional/semantic confusion, they're from different implicit axioms which recur in all of their arguments.
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Are you able to reduce his axioms to a fundamental set of 5 or even 50? I bet not. Humans aren’t axiomatic. We hold hundreds of fragmented belief islands, each based on a few situational rather than axiomatic beliefs. Hedgehog-mind is an illusory map on top of a fox territory.
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We agree that's there's lot of islands, etc. (I am an SFI fan after all) But I actually think I could reduce it to about 50 to get 80% predictability on his views a priori. Most people have pretty low Kolmogorov Complexity and are decently consistent.
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I'm trying to figure out how to test it. Maybe one group of people asks some questions & records responses, and another group is given the question and tries to come up with axioms that correspond predict the response?
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The fact that you’re thinking in terms of language and self-reported surveys tells me we’re pretty much talking about entirely different levels of belief. Disgust shapes the bottom 90% of the iceberg. Surveys get at a fraction of the 10% at best.
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How you arrange a workshop, what cookware you buy for kitchen, which cleaning products you use… it’s endless. That entire set of revealed preferences (what you’d probably call lived values) is in scope. Amazon shopping history would reveal it better than a survey.
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There’s definitely predictability there too obviously. But a vast amount of machine learning and big data still won’t predict much of what I’ll buy next month. Only a small subset.
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Yea, I'd say that those kinds of these are essentially directly aesthetic with meta-aesthetics around purity, order, etc. and all reconciled against one's economic/consumption habits. I'm not saying a prediction engine just need 50 factors - for sure that won't work.
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