It would seem that one particular failure of constructing a totalizing (meta-)worldview is Bayesian evidence in favor of Chapmanian postrationalism, but this isn’t the only alternative. Perhaps it is feasible to construct a totalizing (meta-)worldview, but it failed in this case for particular reasons.
I agree that we can say that MIRI’s research program failed. But I don’t think it makes sense to say that the whole totalizing meta-worldview has failed.
This particular meta-worldview has arguably been developing since Democratus, 3,000 years ago. Being extremely conservative, it’s as old as the concept of a Turing machine. It seems a bit weird to consider the reductionist / reduction-to-mathematics project as a whole to be failed, because MIRI in particular failed to close all the open problems, over the span of about 10 years.
It seems most likely to me that most of the meta worldview was roughly right, but is still incomplete.
None of what you’re talking about is particular to the Sequences. It’s a particular synthesis of ideas including reductionism, Bayesianism, VNM, etc. I’m not really sure why the Sequences would be important under your view except as a popularization of pre-existing concepts.
I agree that we can say that MIRI’s research program failed. But I don’t think it makes sense to say that the whole totalizing meta-worldview has failed.
This particular meta-worldview has arguably been developing since Democratus, 3,000 years ago. Being extremely conservative, it’s as old as the concept of a Turing machine. It seems a bit weird to consider the reductionist / reduction-to-mathematics project as a whole to be failed, because MIRI in particular failed to close all the open problems, over the span of about 10 years.
It seems most likely to me that most of the meta worldview was roughly right, but is still incomplete.
None of what you’re talking about is particular to the Sequences. It’s a particular synthesis of ideas including reductionism, Bayesianism, VNM, etc. I’m not really sure why the Sequences would be important under your view except as a popularization of pre-existing concepts.