What is Rationalization and What are the benefits of identifying it?
It does not provide a lot of tools for you to use in protecting yourself from rationalization.
I look forward to this. Wait, my rationalization, or others’? Both?
If rationalization looks just like logic, can we ever escape Cartesian Doubt?
What is Cartesian Doubt? (If rationalization looks just like logic, how can we tell the difference?)
Given that any evidence of awakeness is a thing that can be dreamed,
Sort of. Have you ever read a book in a dream? (There’s evidence of dreaming that isn’t produced by reality (in practice this may be a matter of rates).)
The simplest ideal of thinking deals extensively with uncertainty of external facts, but trusts its own reasoning implicitly. Directly imitating this, when your own reasoning is not 100% trustworthy, is a bad plan.
Been wondering about how this could be programmed (aside from ‘run the calculation 3 times’).
Hopefully this sequence will provide some alternatives.
What is Rationalization and What are the benefits of identifying it?
I look forward to this. Wait, my rationalization, or others’? Both?
What is Cartesian Doubt? (If rationalization looks just like logic, how can we tell the difference?)
Sort of. Have you ever read a book in a dream? (There’s evidence of dreaming that isn’t produced by reality (in practice this may be a matter of rates).)
Been wondering about how this could be programmed (aside from ‘run the calculation 3 times’).
Thanks for making this!