Plausibly the largest update to the foundations of my epistemology I’ve had since reading the sequences. Neat.
Feels like it captures and grounds out something critical about how to reason in a complex and uncertain domain without resorting to deference. Spot checking lots of parts of a world model and finding them consistent is genuine though not strong evidence of the overall conclusion, because they could have been inconsistent.
It’s neat how this bootstraps from nothing, even if for high confidence you want other forms of evidence too.
Plausibly the largest update to the foundations of my epistemology I’ve had since reading the sequences. Neat.
Feels like it captures and grounds out something critical about how to reason in a complex and uncertain domain without resorting to deference. Spot checking lots of parts of a world model and finding them consistent is genuine though not strong evidence of the overall conclusion, because they could have been inconsistent.
It’s neat how this bootstraps from nothing, even if for high confidence you want other forms of evidence too.