“There is variation on what techniques are useful for what people, and Said’s mind is shaped such that the CFAR paradigm isn’t useful, and it will never be legible to Said that the CFAR paradigm is useful.”
This happens to be phrased such that it could be literally true, but the implication—that the CFAR paradigm is in fact useful (to some people), and that it could potentially be useful (to some people) but the fact of its usefulness could be illegible to me—cannot be true. (Or, to be more precisely, it cannot be true simultaneously with the claim being true that “the CFAR paradigm” constitutes CFAR succeeding at finding [at least part of] what they were looking for. Is this claim being made? It seems like it is—if not, that should be made clear!)
The reason is simple: the kind of thing that CFAR (claimed to have) set out to look for, is the kind of thing that should be quite legible even to very skeptical third parties. “We found what we were looking for, but you just can’t tell that we did” is manifestly an evasion.
The reason is simple: the kind of thing that CFAR (claimed to have) set out to look for, is the kind of thing that should be quite legible even to very skeptical third parties.
What is your current model of what CFAR “claimed to have set out to look for”? I don’t actually know much of an explicit statement of what CFAR was trying to look for, besides the basic concepts of “applied rationality”.
Separately from my other comment, I will say—
This happens to be phrased such that it could be literally true, but the implication—that the CFAR paradigm is in fact useful (to some people), and that it could potentially be useful (to some people) but the fact of its usefulness could be illegible to me—cannot be true. (Or, to be more precisely, it cannot be true simultaneously with the claim being true that “the CFAR paradigm” constitutes CFAR succeeding at finding [at least part of] what they were looking for. Is this claim being made? It seems like it is—if not, that should be made clear!)
The reason is simple: the kind of thing that CFAR (claimed to have) set out to look for, is the kind of thing that should be quite legible even to very skeptical third parties. “We found what we were looking for, but you just can’t tell that we did” is manifestly an evasion.
What is your current model of what CFAR “claimed to have set out to look for”? I don’t actually know much of an explicit statement of what CFAR was trying to look for, besides the basic concepts of “applied rationality”.