But then I noticed that the post was a follow up to two more, one entitled “If many-worlds had come first,” the other “The failures of Eld science.” Oh crap, now I had to go back and read those before figuring out what Yudkowsky was up to. (And before you ask, yes, those posts too linked to previous ones, but by then I had had enough.)
Except that that didn’t help either. Both posts are rather bizarre, if somewhat amusing, fictional dialogues, one of which doesn’t even mention the word “Bayes” (the other refers to it tangentially a couple of times), and that certainly constitute no sustained argument at all. (Indeed, “The failures of Eld science” sounds a lot like the sort of narrative you find in Atlas Shrugged, and you know that’s not a compliment coming from me.)
Harsh but mostly true, I think.
Many social movements base their popularity on texts that are basically free-form poems. Eliezer, Moldbug, Ayn Rand, even the Sermon on the Mount :-)
cousin_it, if you’re still paying attention- I’m curious why you think this about Eliezer.
Why Massimo Pigliucci thinks something like that
http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/eliezer-yudkowsky-on-bayes-and-science.html
Got it. Thanks.
...or like women’s suffrage or abolition!
...or like women’s suffrage or abolition!
Not all poetry is equally valid or has equally defensible aims.
What does it mean for poetry to be “valid”?