Yeah, but I’ve found the previous posts much more useful for coming up with clear explanations aimed at non-LWers, and I presume they’d make a better introduction to some of the core LW epistemic rationality than just throwing “The Simple Truth” at them.
Yeah, but I’ve found the previous posts much more useful for coming up with clear explanations aimed at non-LWers, and I presume they’d make a better introduction to some of the core LW epistemic rationality than just throwing “The Simple Truth” at them.
It’s a pretty hard balance to strike that’s probably different for everyone, between incomprehensibility and boringness.
I already more-or-less knew most of the stuff in the previous posts in this sequences and still didn’t find them boring.
Agree. When I first read The Simple Truth, I thought Eliezer was endorsing pragmatism over correspondence.
I’m still wondering what The Simple Truth is about. My best guess is that it is a critique of instrawmantalism.