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Bostrom's moral logic has always been the philosophybro version of using numerically unstable floating point algorithms. He contrives to find situations where m
by idlewords 3y ago
Bostrom's moral logic has always been the philosophybro version of using numerically unstable floating point algorithms. He contrives to find situations where multiplying a tiny probability by an enormous weighting factor leads to some kind of publishable result in doomsday philosophy, where the bar is not set high.
The thinking appears to be that even if the ideas in each individual paper are trifling, publishing a sufficient number of them will lead in the aggregate to a great lurch forward for human thought.