Puzzle: how are both merit beliefs and crony beliefs the same kind of thing?
A ‘merit belief’ is out to model the world, but not in an unmotivated way. It wants to model a part of the world that’s relevant to someone else; you can tell it’s accurately modeling an important part of the world because it wins favor from others (by being useful to them).
A ‘merit belief’ is out to model the world, but not in an unmotivated way. It wants to model a part of the world that’s relevant to someone else; you can tell it’s accurately modeling an important part of the world because it wins favor from others (by being useful to them).
See johnswentworth’s posts on price signals in biology and so on.