There’s a bunch of things in the content of this post I really like:
Pushing against ignoring details (i.e. throwing away info available to you when using the outside view)
Making more detailed claims about how the gears level of reasoning works—one of the issues with an epistemology based on taking the outside view is that it doesn’t explain how to actually figure new things out e.g. explaining how your gears and policies work together to create a better set of gears—making your epistemology work together to solve mistakes you’ve made
I don’t feel like I fully understand (i.e. could easily replicate) how your notion of the policy level interacts with the gears—I might try to work through some examples in a separate comment later, and if I can do that I’ll probably start using these terms myself.
Also, something about this post felt really well structured. Anyhow, for all these reasons, I’ve Featured this.
One thing I’d add to that list is that the post focuses on refining existing concepts, which is quite valuable and generally doesn’t get enough attention.
There’s a bunch of things in the content of this post I really like:
Pushing against ignoring details (i.e. throwing away info available to you when using the outside view)
Making more detailed claims about how the gears level of reasoning works—one of the issues with an epistemology based on taking the outside view is that it doesn’t explain how to actually figure new things out e.g. explaining how your gears and policies work together to create a better set of gears—making your epistemology work together to solve mistakes you’ve made
I don’t feel like I fully understand (i.e. could easily replicate) how your notion of the policy level interacts with the gears—I might try to work through some examples in a separate comment later, and if I can do that I’ll probably start using these terms myself.
Also, something about this post felt really well structured. Anyhow, for all these reasons, I’ve Featured this.
One thing I’d add to that list is that the post focuses on refining existing concepts, which is quite valuable and generally doesn’t get enough attention.