An essential step to becoming a scientist is to learn methods and protocols to avoid deluding yourself into believing false things.
Yep, good epistemics is kind of the point of a lot of this “science” business. (“Rationality” too, of course.) I agree with this point.
You learn that by doing a PhD and getting your research past your advisor and getting your publications to survive peer review.
I mean, that’s probably one way to build rationality skill. But Science Isn’t Enough. And a lot of “scientists” by these lights still seem deeply irrational by ours. Yudkowsky has thought deeply about this topic.
In terms of the important question of how epistemics works, Yann seems to literally claim that the way to avoid believing false things is to ‘get your research past your advisor and getting your publications to survive peer review’
“The” way, or “a” way? From the wording, with a more charitable reading, I don’t think he literally said that was the exclusive method, just the one that he used (and implied that Yudkowsky didn’t? Not sure of context.) “Arguments are soldiers” here?
Yep, good epistemics is kind of the point of a lot of this “science” business. (“Rationality” too, of course.) I agree with this point.
I mean, that’s probably one way to build rationality skill. But Science Isn’t Enough. And a lot of “scientists” by these lights still seem deeply irrational by ours. Yudkowsky has thought deeply about this topic.
“The” way, or “a” way? From the wording, with a more charitable reading, I don’t think he literally said that was the exclusive method, just the one that he used (and implied that Yudkowsky didn’t? Not sure of context.) “Arguments are soldiers” here?