I agree that you’ve agreed on many specific things. I suggest that the sense of remaining disagreement is currently confused through refusing to taboo “useful”. You use one definition, he uses a different one, and there is possibly genuine disagreement in there somewhere, but you won’t be able to find it without again switching to more specific discussion.
Also, taboo doesn’t work by giving a definition, instead you explain whatever you wanted without using the concept explicitly (so it’s always a definition in a specific context).
For example:
Quite a few works from mainstream philosophy have been used by him, so presumably he finds them useful.
Instead of debating this point of the definition (and what constitutes “being used”), consider the questions of whether Eliezer agrees that he was influenced (in any sense) by quite a few works from mainstream philosophy (obviously), whether they provided insights that would’ve been unavailable otherwise (probably not), whether they happen to already contain some of the same basic insights found elsewhere (yes), whether they originate them (it depends), etc.
It’s a long list, not as satisfying as the simple “useful/not”, but this is the way to unpack the disagreement. And even if you agree on every fact, his sense of “useful” can disagree with yours.
I’ll wait to see if Eliezer really thinks we aren’t on the same page about the meaning of ‘useful’.
If reflective equilibrium, which plays a central role in Eliezer’s plan (CEV) to save humanity, isn’t useful, then I will be very surprised, and we will seem to be using different definitions of the term “useful.”
Has he repudiated the usefulness of reflective equilibrium (or of the concept, or the term)? I recall that he’s used it himself in some of the more recent summaries of CEV.
I agree that you’ve agreed on many specific things. I suggest that the sense of remaining disagreement is currently confused through refusing to taboo “useful”. You use one definition, he uses a different one, and there is possibly genuine disagreement in there somewhere, but you won’t be able to find it without again switching to more specific discussion.
Also, taboo doesn’t work by giving a definition, instead you explain whatever you wanted without using the concept explicitly (so it’s always a definition in a specific context).
For example:
Instead of debating this point of the definition (and what constitutes “being used”), consider the questions of whether Eliezer agrees that he was influenced (in any sense) by quite a few works from mainstream philosophy (obviously), whether they provided insights that would’ve been unavailable otherwise (probably not), whether they happen to already contain some of the same basic insights found elsewhere (yes), whether they originate them (it depends), etc.
It’s a long list, not as satisfying as the simple “useful/not”, but this is the way to unpack the disagreement. And even if you agree on every fact, his sense of “useful” can disagree with yours.
I’ll wait to see if Eliezer really thinks we aren’t on the same page about the meaning of ‘useful’.
If reflective equilibrium, which plays a central role in Eliezer’s plan (CEV) to save humanity, isn’t useful, then I will be very surprised, and we will seem to be using different definitions of the term “useful.”
Has he repudiated the usefulness of reflective equilibrium (or of the concept, or the term)? I recall that he’s used it himself in some of the more recent summaries of CEV.