It seems like you think the ceiling of philosophical competence is very very high, so that even civilizations that are substantially wiser than ours and presumably much more philosophically competent (?) than ours, would not trust their philosophy very much. [1]
That is, they could be “twice” as philosophically competent as us (on some hypothetical reasonable scale), but that’s just still not very much in an absolute sense.
Is there a particular reason why you think that the ceiling is so high?
In general, it seems hard to know which problems are just beyond our grasp and which problems far outstrip our abilities. I could imagine that if I were only a little bit smarter than any human to date, that it wouldn’t be easy for me to solve problems that are currently philosophically fraught me, with robust and verifiable methods.
Or alternatively, do you guess that civilizations with a much higher average intelligence, that are overall displaying more wisdom and coordination than ours, and not also more likely to be philosophically competent?
It seems crazy to me that there’s not a positive correlation between intelligence and philosophical competence or wisdom and philosophical competence.
It seems like you think the ceiling of philosophical competence is very very high, so that even civilizations that are substantially wiser than ours and presumably much more philosophically competent (?) than ours, would not trust their philosophy very much. [1]
That is, they could be “twice” as philosophically competent as us (on some hypothetical reasonable scale), but that’s just still not very much in an absolute sense.
Is there a particular reason why you think that the ceiling is so high?
In general, it seems hard to know which problems are just beyond our grasp and which problems far outstrip our abilities. I could imagine that if I were only a little bit smarter than any human to date, that it wouldn’t be easy for me to solve problems that are currently philosophically fraught me, with robust and verifiable methods.
Or alternatively, do you guess that civilizations with a much higher average intelligence, that are overall displaying more wisdom and coordination than ours, and not also more likely to be philosophically competent?
It seems crazy to me that there’s not a positive correlation between intelligence and philosophical competence or wisdom and philosophical competence.