In my studies of philosophy, I’ve mostly just tried to figure out what’s correct, and not bothered to learn who came up with and believes what or to keep track of the controversies.
It occurs to me that in you’re doing the opposite—thinking about what Eliezer believes, rather than about what’s correct. And that seems to have translated into taking a list of standard conroversies, and expecting one of a list of standard responses to each. And the really interesting thing is, you don’t seem to have found them. It seems that, for each of those questions, there are three possibilities: either he hasn’t taken a position, he took a position but it wasn’t recognizable becaused he came at it from a different angle or used unusual terminology, or he skipped it because it was a wrong question in the first place. I read those posts a long time ago, but I think the answer is mostly #3.
In my studies of philosophy, I’ve mostly just tried to figure out what’s correct, and not bothered to learn who came up with and believes what or to keep track of the controversies.
It occurs to me that in you’re doing the opposite—thinking about what Eliezer believes, rather than about what’s correct. And that seems to have translated into taking a list of standard conroversies, and expecting one of a list of standard responses to each. And the really interesting thing is, you don’t seem to have found them. It seems that, for each of those questions, there are three possibilities: either he hasn’t taken a position, he took a position but it wasn’t recognizable becaused he came at it from a different angle or used unusual terminology, or he skipped it because it was a wrong question in the first place. I read those posts a long time ago, but I think the answer is mostly #3.
jimrandomh,
No, I have my own thoughts on what is correct, and have written hundreds of pages about what I think is correct. Check my blog if you’re curious.
But for right now, I just want to at least understand what Eliezer’s positions are.