Thanks, and yes, I did scan over the comments when I first read the article, and noted many good points, but when I decided to write I wanted to focus on this particular angle and not get lost in an encyclopaedia defences. I’m very much in the same camp as the first comment you quote.
I appreciate your take on Yudkowsky’s overreach, and the historical context. That helps me understand his position better.
The semantic stop-sign is interesting, I do appreciate Yudkowsky coming up with these handy handles for ideas that often crop up in discussion. Your two examples make me think of the fallacy of composition, in that emergence seems to be a key feature of reality that, at least in part, makes the fallacy of composition a fallacy.
Thanks, and yes, I did scan over the comments when I first read the article, and noted many good points, but when I decided to write I wanted to focus on this particular angle and not get lost in an encyclopaedia defences. I’m very much in the same camp as the first comment you quote.
I appreciate your take on Yudkowsky’s overreach, and the historical context. That helps me understand his position better.
The semantic stop-sign is interesting, I do appreciate Yudkowsky coming up with these handy handles for ideas that often crop up in discussion. Your two examples make me think of the fallacy of composition, in that emergence seems to be a key feature of reality that, at least in part, makes the fallacy of composition a fallacy.