David Chapman has been banging on for years now against “Bayesianism”/early LW-style rationality being particularly useful for novel scientific advances, and, separately, against utilitarianism being a satisfactory all-purpose system of ethics. He proposes another “royal road”, something something Kegan stage 5 (and maybe also Buddhism for some reason), but, frustratingly, his writings so far are rich on expositions and problem statements but consist of many IOUs on detailed solution approaches. I think that he makes a compelling case that these are open problems, insufficiently acknowledged and grappled with even by non-mainstream communities like the LW-sphere, but is probably overconfident about postmodernism/himself having much useful to offer in the way of answers.
David Chapman has been banging on for years now against “Bayesianism”/early LW-style rationality being particularly useful for novel scientific advances, and, separately, against utilitarianism being a satisfactory all-purpose system of ethics. He proposes another “royal road”, something something Kegan stage 5 (and maybe also Buddhism for some reason), but, frustratingly, his writings so far are rich on expositions and problem statements but consist of many IOUs on detailed solution approaches. I think that he makes a compelling case that these are open problems, insufficiently acknowledged and grappled with even by non-mainstream communities like the LW-sphere, but is probably overconfident about postmodernism/himself having much useful to offer in the way of answers.