TheAncientGeek

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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
But rationalism , if the modern sort, isn't supposed to be descriptive, it's supposed to be normative -- rationality lets you win.
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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
Liberal and orthodox.
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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
It can't be that different, either, or our senses would be of no practical use.
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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
For naturalistic libertarians , free.will is.partly constituted by indtermimksm, not something entirely different.
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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
Also, mandatory scriptures and group hiouses.
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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
Analytical philosophy is rationalism done right.
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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
There isn't a single philosophical meaning. You are probably thinking of libertarian free will..furthering Obviously false because determinism isn't obviously true.
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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
>actually, this is obviously correct Nobody know what's actually correct, because you have to solve epistemology first, and you have to solve epistemology to solve epistemology...etc.etc. >And it turns out if you do this, you ca
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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
It's not just Moshowitz a lot of them have the same syndome.
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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
. Popperians claim that positive justification is impossible. Popperians claim.Induction doesn't exist (or at least , matter in science) Popper was prepared to consider the existence of Propensities objective.probabilities, whereas Bay
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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
Several different definitions are being bandied about. If you think of reduction as understanding a material system in terms of its components, biology is now reductionist, having abandoned vitalism.
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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
That's a practical limitation. There's no barrier in principle to a complete reduction.
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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
Well, you can get it from LessWrong and , even mire, Yudkowsky. Rationalism has overall and orthodox wings
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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
There's a lot of weird ideas on the fringes of EA...but they are on the fringes. Everyone is eye rolling at shrimp guy. https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/5JB4dn7hEvZCYDvCe/a-very-... https://www.g
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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
Bullet biting.
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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/dTkWWhQkgxePxbtPE/no-logi...
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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
There is no local realism. That doesn't at all add up to all-in-the-head idealism.
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by TheAncientGeek 1y ago
Randomness based free will still gives you a non-inevitable future.