This, btw, creates knowledge in the same way as evolution (replication of ideas, with variation, and selection by criticism). That’s not a metaphor or analogy by literally true.
Well, biological evolution is a much smaller part of conceptspace than “replication, variation, selection” and now I’m realizing that you probably haven’t read A Human’s Guide to Words which is extremely important and interesting and, while you’ll know much of it, has things that are unique and original and that you’ll learn a lot from. Please read it.
I prefer to leave such statements undefined, since people disagree too much on what ‘morality’ means.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had an epistemology that helped you deal with all kinds of knowledge, so you didn’t have to simply give up on applying reason to important issues like what is a good life, and what are good values?
I do apply reason to those things, I just don’t use the words ‘morality’ in my reasoning process because too many people get confused. It is only a word after all.
On a side note, I am staring to like what I hear of Popper. It seems to embody an understanding of the brain and a bunch of useful advice for it. I think I disagree with some things, but on grounds that seems like the sort of thing that is accepted as motivation for the theory self-modify. Does that make sense? Anyways, it’s not Popper’s fault that there are a set of theorems that in principle remove the need for other types of thought and in practice cause big changes in the way we understand and evaluate the heuristics that are necessary because the brain is fallible and computationally limited.
Wei Dai likes thinking about how to deal with questions outside of Bayesianism’s current domain of applicability, so he might be interested in this.
Fine, what would you consider an argument for it?
Eliezer and I probably agree with you.
Well, biological evolution is a much smaller part of conceptspace than “replication, variation, selection” and now I’m realizing that you probably haven’t read A Human’s Guide to Words which is extremely important and interesting and, while you’ll know much of it, has things that are unique and original and that you’ll learn a lot from. Please read it.
I do apply reason to those things, I just don’t use the words ‘morality’ in my reasoning process because too many people get confused. It is only a word after all.
On a side note, I am staring to like what I hear of Popper. It seems to embody an understanding of the brain and a bunch of useful advice for it. I think I disagree with some things, but on grounds that seems like the sort of thing that is accepted as motivation for the theory self-modify. Does that make sense? Anyways, it’s not Popper’s fault that there are a set of theorems that in principle remove the need for other types of thought and in practice cause big changes in the way we understand and evaluate the heuristics that are necessary because the brain is fallible and computationally limited.
Wei Dai likes thinking about how to deal with questions outside of Bayesianism’s current domain of applicability, so he might be interested in this.