You’re employing the classical division of reason versus empiricism. While I do have criticized this forum’s emphasis on reason before, your critique seems to be off the mark. This site is devoted to rationality, not pure reason as such, and rationality uses whatever mix of reason and empiricism that achieves the best results. You’re making the assumption that Eliezer relies only on reason and not enough on evidence, but you (ironically given your position) aren’t providing any evidence to back up the claim.
Suppose there is an optimal mix of reason and empiricism for a specific domain. If you suspect somebody’s mix of the two seems to be wrong, you need to first show that the optimal mix for that domain is what you think it to be, and then that your opponent is leaning too much in one direction. You can’t just say “my opponent is wrong” and then parade a long list of failures which you believe were caused by too much reason. That’s a fully general counterargument.
You’re employing the classical division of reason versus empiricism. While I do have criticized this forum’s emphasis on reason before, your critique seems to be off the mark. This site is devoted to rationality, not pure reason as such, and rationality uses whatever mix of reason and empiricism that achieves the best results. You’re making the assumption that Eliezer relies only on reason and not enough on evidence, but you (ironically given your position) aren’t providing any evidence to back up the claim.
Suppose there is an optimal mix of reason and empiricism for a specific domain. If you suspect somebody’s mix of the two seems to be wrong, you need to first show that the optimal mix for that domain is what you think it to be, and then that your opponent is leaning too much in one direction. You can’t just say “my opponent is wrong” and then parade a long list of failures which you believe were caused by too much reason. That’s a fully general counterargument.