My recent post, Public Positions and Private Guts, is a conceptual descendant of the claim that there’s a better way of doing science than the scientific method, in that it sees the scientific method as one member of a class of methods used for discovering and communicating knowledge of different types.
But “conceptual descendant” seems important; the typology in my post is perhaps something Eliezer saw then but isn’t something he discusses in that post. (To be clear, that post is my take on Anna’s concept, and where Anna got that typology from is unknown to me; it might even be Eliezer!)
One of the reasons why academia has all those strict norms around plagiarism and citing sources is that it makes the “conceptual family tree” legible. Otherwise it just kind of becomes soupy and difficult to discern.
The “payoff” of of MWI, that there is a better way of doing science than the scientific method seems to have been dropped as well.
My recent post, Public Positions and Private Guts, is a conceptual descendant of the claim that there’s a better way of doing science than the scientific method, in that it sees the scientific method as one member of a class of methods used for discovering and communicating knowledge of different types.
But “conceptual descendant” seems important; the typology in my post is perhaps something Eliezer saw then but isn’t something he discusses in that post. (To be clear, that post is my take on Anna’s concept, and where Anna got that typology from is unknown to me; it might even be Eliezer!)
One of the reasons why academia has all those strict norms around plagiarism and citing sources is that it makes the “conceptual family tree” legible. Otherwise it just kind of becomes soupy and difficult to discern.