Promoted to the frontpage. I like this post, and think it’s an interesting extension and clarification of the Slack concept, though I still didn’t walk away with a very precise sense of what “Slack in one’s belief system” actually means, and I still have a few competing interpretations of the details. But I like the point overall. I would be glad to see people in the comments or in future posts to try to give a more rigorous definition of Slack in this context.
I was also somewhat unsure about the Slack-In-Belief-System definition and thought it’d have been nice to open with a sentence or two clarifying that.
It sounded something like a combination of “having some chunk of probability space for ‘things I haven’t thought of ’ or ‘I might be wrong’”, as well as something vaguer like “being a bit flexible about how you come to believe things.”
Promoted to the frontpage. I like this post, and think it’s an interesting extension and clarification of the Slack concept, though I still didn’t walk away with a very precise sense of what “Slack in one’s belief system” actually means, and I still have a few competing interpretations of the details. But I like the point overall. I would be glad to see people in the comments or in future posts to try to give a more rigorous definition of Slack in this context.
I was also somewhat unsure about the Slack-In-Belief-System definition and thought it’d have been nice to open with a sentence or two clarifying that.
It sounded something like a combination of “having some chunk of probability space for ‘things I haven’t thought of ’ or ‘I might be wrong’”, as well as something vaguer like “being a bit flexible about how you come to believe things.”
Yes! And it should come right between these two lines
Is it bad? I don’t know. You haven’t told me what you mean by Slack in belief system yet!