I don’t know what he believes. I know only what he says. If he doesn’t believe what he says, that isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement, but would complicate things. What I do know is that his entire notion of meaningness, and everything I’ve ever read from that blog, is anti-truth and anti-rationality. It’s grounded in assertions that rationality has problems which I do not accept are problems and makes bald-faced assertions (see: eternalism, aka ‘Truth exists’, which is asserted to be wrong because it contains divine command theory as a subset) that are just not true, while laying the foundation for his other arguments. Ex falso sequitur quodlibet, and his writing style has all the bad qualities of Eliezer’s, so I can’t bring myself to read it in enough depth to write a point by point rebuttal.
I don’t know what he believes. I know only what he says. If he doesn’t believe what he says, that isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement, but would complicate things.
What I do know is that his entire notion of meaningness, and everything I’ve ever read from that blog, is anti-truth and anti-rationality. It’s grounded in assertions that rationality has problems which I do not accept are problems and makes bald-faced assertions (see: eternalism, aka ‘Truth exists’, which is asserted to be wrong because it contains divine command theory as a subset) that are just not true, while laying the foundation for his other arguments. Ex falso sequitur quodlibet, and his writing style has all the bad qualities of Eliezer’s, so I can’t bring myself to read it in enough depth to write a point by point rebuttal.