In Already In Motion [actually not, but somewhere] EY noticed that epistemic processes start from unjustified assumptions, and concludes that,even so , you should carry on as before. But even though scepticism doesn’t motivate you to switch to different beliefs, it should motivate you to be less certain of everything.
Less certain than what, though? That’s an update you make once only, perhaps in childhood, when you first wake up to the separation between perceptions and the outside world, between beliefs and perceptions, and so on up the ladder of abstraction.
Isn’t this a universal argument against everything? “There are so many other things that might be true, so how can you be sure of this one?”
It’s a valid argument, too.
In Already In Motion [actually not, but somewhere] EY noticed that epistemic processes start from unjustified assumptions, and concludes that,even so , you should carry on as before. But even though scepticism doesn’t motivate you to switch to different beliefs, it should motivate you to be less certain of everything.
Less certain than what, though? That’s an update you make once only, perhaps in childhood, when you first wake up to the separation between perceptions and the outside world, between beliefs and perceptions, and so on up the ladder of abstraction.
Of course, it depends on where you are starting from. I was kind of aiming at people with Yudkowky’s level of certitude, such as the man himself.