The pictures are so confusing! Without them, the article would be half as long, and easier to read.
It took me some time to make a guess about what you were trying to say. Here is my guess:
We get skills by doing things, and getting natural feedback on them. The learning is more precise if we learn sub-skills separately; this is how good coaches do it. Well-mastered skills become unconscious. This kind of knowledge is often difficult to describe verbally. Wittgenstein is awkward. The fact that we have skills we can’t verbally explain is an argument for the existence of reality (I guess if everything would be “maps” and “social consensus”, we would be able to explain everything verbally). This is a historically important philosophical insight.
Somehow I am neither impressed, nor do I feel that reading and analyzing this article was a meaningful way of spending time. (I tried to be nice and give you feedback beyond “philosophy is unwelcome at LW”. My alternative hypothesis is “texts that are difficult to read, and contain little information, which itself is kinda dubious, are unwelcome at LW”.)
My objections:
the fact that “I can’t explain something verbally” is a fact about me, not about the thing being indescribable in principle; maybe it actually is maps and social rules all the way down, and one of the rules is that you are forbidden to describe some parts verbally. (No, this is not my actual opinion, just a counter-argument.)
Wittgenstein’s argument about infinite regress of rules for applying rules, and the actual mechanism how humans learn tacit skills, may seem similar but happen on different levels. (It’s like using unpredictability of quantum physics to explain why you can’t predict a coin flip.)
The pictures are so confusing! Without them, the article would be half as long, and easier to read.
It took me some time to make a guess about what you were trying to say. Here is my guess:
Somehow I am neither impressed, nor do I feel that reading and analyzing this article was a meaningful way of spending time. (I tried to be nice and give you feedback beyond “philosophy is unwelcome at LW”. My alternative hypothesis is “texts that are difficult to read, and contain little information, which itself is kinda dubious, are unwelcome at LW”.)
My objections:
the fact that “I can’t explain something verbally” is a fact about me, not about the thing being indescribable in principle; maybe it actually is maps and social rules all the way down, and one of the rules is that you are forbidden to describe some parts verbally. (No, this is not my actual opinion, just a counter-argument.)
Wittgenstein’s argument about infinite regress of rules for applying rules, and the actual mechanism how humans learn tacit skills, may seem similar but happen on different levels. (It’s like using unpredictability of quantum physics to explain why you can’t predict a coin flip.)
Thanks for feedback.