I felt like this post was building a castle in the air. You spend a lot of time assuming various useful abilities, which I often didn’t find interesting.
I’d be more interested in taking those assumed abilities, and breaking them down into much smaller pieces that we understand better individually. It’s also important to be able to learn that you were assuming the wrong thing (maybe the thing you’re assuming is too hard to do, or didn’t even make sense) and assume something else instead—if we couldn’t do this we’d lose one of our big advantages over philosophers :D
Thanks for the feedback! I guess the intention of this post was to lay down the broad framing/motivation for upcoming work that will involve looking at the more concrete details.
I do resonate with the feeling that the post as a whole feels a bit empty as it stands and the effort could have been better spent elsewhere.
I felt like this post was building a castle in the air. You spend a lot of time assuming various useful abilities, which I often didn’t find interesting.
I’d be more interested in taking those assumed abilities, and breaking them down into much smaller pieces that we understand better individually. It’s also important to be able to learn that you were assuming the wrong thing (maybe the thing you’re assuming is too hard to do, or didn’t even make sense) and assume something else instead—if we couldn’t do this we’d lose one of our big advantages over philosophers :D
Thanks for the feedback! I guess the intention of this post was to lay down the broad framing/motivation for upcoming work that will involve looking at the more concrete details.
I do resonate with the feeling that the post as a whole feels a bit empty as it stands and the effort could have been better spent elsewhere.