CFAR generally taught classes and then followed up with people. They didn’t do that in a scientifically rigorous manner and had no interest in collaborating with academics like Falk Lieder to run a rigorous inquiry but that doesn’t mean that their approach wasn’t empiric. There were plenty of classes that they had in the begining where they learned after doing them and looking at empiric feedback that they weren’t a bad idea.
Does it not seem to you like this is precisely the sort of attitude toward the truth that the Sequences go to heroic lengths to warn against?
You might argue that the view of the sequences is opposed to the one that’s expressed in “fake frameworks” but it still seems to me one that’s popular right now.
I don’t deny that there would be some value in someone going through and fact-checking all the sequences but at the same time I understand why that’s nobodies Hemming problem.
CFAR generally taught classes and then followed up with people. They didn’t do that in a scientifically rigorous manner and had no interest in collaborating with academics like Falk Lieder to run a rigorous inquiry but that doesn’t mean that their approach wasn’t empiric. There were plenty of classes that they had in the begining where they learned after doing them and looking at empiric feedback that they weren’t a bad idea.
You might argue that the view of the sequences is opposed to the one that’s expressed in “fake frameworks” but it still seems to me one that’s popular right now.
I don’t deny that there would be some value in someone going through and fact-checking all the sequences but at the same time I understand why that’s nobodies Hemming problem.
Hemming problem?
I mispelled it and it should be “Hamming problem”. See https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/P5k3PGzebd5yYrYqd/the-hamming-question