I had a lot of uncertainty about whether this ranged from “broadly damning” to “confusing and didn’t land.” I hadn’t thought about it very much. I have enough uncertainty about whether it might be actively misleading and epistemically harmful that I wouldn’t endorse this as an intro-to-truth-post until someone I trusted had looked at / thought about it more carefully. (I think it’s fine as a “random ideas from Abram in 2020” post, but my impression is you had aspirations towards it serving as a good self-contained-intro-to-rationality)
I don’t really know how to actually test if the dream thing works. It seems like it could work fine, or could be pure confabulation. But because it’s a domain that I think is particularly illegible, I currently think that yeah, it’s pretty important to either figure out how to actually check if it works, or remove the dream thing and rework the post pretty significantly. (i.e., that’s the sort of thing I’d expect to want before voting highly on it in the 2020 Review)
(I think it’s fine as a “random ideas from Abram in 2020” post, but my impression is you had aspirations towards it serving as a good self-contained-intro-to-rationality)
Ah. Yeah, I guess I conceived of this as pretty solidly somewhere between those extremes, but the title could be misleading towards the second.
I don’t think of it as a collection of random ideas interesting to me right now. I do think of it as a coherent thing. But I certainly don’t intend it to be an introduction to rationality or even the subtopic of truth-orientedness in rationality.
I had a lot of uncertainty about whether this ranged from “broadly damning” to “confusing and didn’t land.” I hadn’t thought about it very much. I have enough uncertainty about whether it might be actively misleading and epistemically harmful that I wouldn’t endorse this as an intro-to-truth-post until someone I trusted had looked at / thought about it more carefully. (I think it’s fine as a “random ideas from Abram in 2020” post, but my impression is you had aspirations towards it serving as a good self-contained-intro-to-rationality)
I don’t really know how to actually test if the dream thing works. It seems like it could work fine, or could be pure confabulation. But because it’s a domain that I think is particularly illegible, I currently think that yeah, it’s pretty important to either figure out how to actually check if it works, or remove the dream thing and rework the post pretty significantly. (i.e., that’s the sort of thing I’d expect to want before voting highly on it in the 2020 Review)
Ah. Yeah, I guess I conceived of this as pretty solidly somewhere between those extremes, but the title could be misleading towards the second.
I don’t think of it as a collection of random ideas interesting to me right now. I do think of it as a coherent thing. But I certainly don’t intend it to be an introduction to rationality or even the subtopic of truth-orientedness in rationality.