Note that I’ve changed my position dramatically over the last few years, and now basically endorse something very close to what I was calling “rationality realism” (though I’d need to spend some time rereading the post to figure out exactly how close my current position is).
In particular, I think that we should be treating sociology, ethics and various related domains much more like we treat physics.
I also endorse this quote from a comment above, except that I wouldn’t call it “thinking studies” but maybe something more like “the study of intelligent agency” (and would add game theory as a central example):
there is a rich field of thinking-studies. it’s like philosophy, math, or engineering. it includes eg Chomsky’s work on syntax, Turing’s work on computation, Gödel’s work on logic, Wittgenstein’s work on language, Darwin’s work on evolution, Hegel’s work on development, Pascal’s work on probability, and very many more past things and very many more still mostly hard-to-imagine future things
Note that I’ve changed my position dramatically over the last few years, and now basically endorse something very close to what I was calling “rationality realism” (though I’d need to spend some time rereading the post to figure out exactly how close my current position is).
In particular, I think that we should be treating sociology, ethics and various related domains much more like we treat physics.
I also endorse this quote from a comment above, except that I wouldn’t call it “thinking studies” but maybe something more like “the study of intelligent agency” (and would add game theory as a central example):
Is there a writeup regarding your change of view?
This is the closest thing I have.
This is also relevant, about how the “alignment/capabilities” distinction is better understood as a “science/engineering” distinction.