(This comment is really helpful for me to understand your positions.)
Some part of your brain is performing some computation that, if it works, to the extent that it works, is mirroring Bayesian decision theory. But that doesn’t help the part of you can that talk, that can be reached by the part of me that can talk.
Why not? It seems likely to me that the part of my brain that is doing something like Bayesian decision theory can be trained in certain directions by the part of me that talks/listens (for example by studying history or thinking about certain thought experiments).
I falsifiably predict that a culture that has “Use Bayesian decision theory to decide whether or not to speak the truth” as its slogan won’t be able to do science
I’m not convinced of this. Can you say more about why you think this?
(This comment is really helpful for me to understand your positions.)
Why not? It seems likely to me that the part of my brain that is doing something like Bayesian decision theory can be trained in certain directions by the part of me that talks/listens (for example by studying history or thinking about certain thought experiments).
I’m not convinced of this. Can you say more about why you think this?