It is stories like this that are used to explain that some values are of higher importance than others, in simple terms
It’s true that some values are more important than others. But that wasn’t the point Gene was trying to make in the particular post that I linked. He was trying to make (yet another) point about the futility of specifying or adhering to specific rules, insisting that mastery of the material necessarily comes from years of experience.
This is consistent with the theme of the recentposts he’s been making, and his dissertation against rationalism in politics (though the latter is not the same as the “rationalism” we refer to here).
Whatever the merit of the point he was trying to make (which I disagree with), he picked a bad example, and I showed why: the supposedly “tacit”, inarticulable judgment that comes with experience was actually quite articulable, without even having to anticipate this scenario in advance, and while only speaking in general terms!
(I mentioned his opposition to reductionism only to give greater context to my frequent disagreement with him (unfortunately, past debates were deleted as he or his friend moved blogs, others because he didn’t like the exchange). In this particular exchange, you find him rejecting mechanism, specifically the idea that humans can be described as machines following deterministic laws at all.)
It’s true that some values are more important than others. But that wasn’t the point Gene was trying to make in the particular post that I linked. He was trying to make (yet another) point about the futility of specifying or adhering to specific rules, insisting that mastery of the material necessarily comes from years of experience.
This is consistent with the theme of the recent posts he’s been making, and his dissertation against rationalism in politics (though the latter is not the same as the “rationalism” we refer to here).
Whatever the merit of the point he was trying to make (which I disagree with), he picked a bad example, and I showed why: the supposedly “tacit”, inarticulable judgment that comes with experience was actually quite articulable, without even having to anticipate this scenario in advance, and while only speaking in general terms!
(I mentioned his opposition to reductionism only to give greater context to my frequent disagreement with him (unfortunately, past debates were deleted as he or his friend moved blogs, others because he didn’t like the exchange). In this particular exchange, you find him rejecting mechanism, specifically the idea that humans can be described as machines following deterministic laws at all.)