When I saw the title, I thought, ‘But we want to decompose problems in FAI theory to isolate questions we can answer. This suggests heavy use of black boxes.’ I wondered if perhaps he was trying to help people who were getting everything wrong (in which case I think a positive suggestion has more chance of helping than telling people what to avoid). I was pleased to see the post actually addressed a more intelligent perspective, and has much less to do with your point or mine.
When I saw the title, I thought, ‘But we want to decompose problems in FAI theory to isolate questions we can answer. This suggests heavy use of black boxes.’ I wondered if perhaps he was trying to help people who were getting everything wrong (in which case I think a positive suggestion has more chance of helping than telling people what to avoid). I was pleased to see the post actually addressed a more intelligent perspective, and has much less to do with your point or mine.