I don’t think either EAs or rationalists think about or in terms of wisdom at all.
EA is not philosophically unified enough to have an answer to the question “what is wisdom”, and rationalists (at their best) would just respond with “Of what decision relevance is this ‘wisdom’ thing you talk about?” or “Standard definitions seem to conflate wisdom with several things which seem relatively distinct eg knowing what you want, knowing about the world, and knowing how to achieve what you want”.
That’s my point, they think the idea of wisdom is confused and you can replace it with the idea of intelligence or compassion. That there’s not a real ‘there’ there that gives you true discernment and ability to tell what is good, right, called for.
yes exactly? they think true discernement and the ability to tell what is good right and called for, is a matter of intelligence. thus they think wisdom is intelligence.
I don’t think either EAs or rationalists think about or in terms of wisdom at all.
EA is not philosophically unified enough to have an answer to the question “what is wisdom”, and rationalists (at their best) would just respond with “Of what decision relevance is this ‘wisdom’ thing you talk about?” or “Standard definitions seem to conflate wisdom with several things which seem relatively distinct eg knowing what you want, knowing about the world, and knowing how to achieve what you want”.
That’s my point, they think the idea of wisdom is confused and you can replace it with the idea of intelligence or compassion. That there’s not a real ‘there’ there that gives you true discernment and ability to tell what is good, right, called for.
That was not in fact your original point. Before you said,
yes exactly? they think true discernement and the ability to tell what is good right and called for, is a matter of intelligence. thus they think wisdom is intelligence.