I just started listening to THIS (perhaps 15min of it on my drive to work this morning), and EY has already mentioned a little about traditional rationality vs. where he is now with respect to reading Feynman. I’m not sure if he’ll talk more about this, but Luke’s page does have as a bullet point of the things covered:
Eliezer’s journey from ‘traditional rationality’ to ‘technical rationality’
so perhaps he’ll continue in detail about this. Off hand, all I can specifically remember is that at one point he encountered some who thought that multiple routes to solve a problem might lead to different, but correct, answers. Then he read Jaynes, who said that this was all wrong—all mathematically valid routes to real solution should and will converge.
Also, there’s a whole series of posts on EY’s “Coming of Age” HERE, but maybe you knew that and still aren’t satisfied.
I just started listening to THIS (perhaps 15min of it on my drive to work this morning), and EY has already mentioned a little about traditional rationality vs. where he is now with respect to reading Feynman. I’m not sure if he’ll talk more about this, but Luke’s page does have as a bullet point of the things covered:
so perhaps he’ll continue in detail about this. Off hand, all I can specifically remember is that at one point he encountered some who thought that multiple routes to solve a problem might lead to different, but correct, answers. Then he read Jaynes, who said that this was all wrong—all mathematically valid routes to real solution should and will converge.
Also, there’s a whole series of posts on EY’s “Coming of Age” HERE, but maybe you knew that and still aren’t satisfied.
Re: The podcast—the relevant bit is about 4 minutes in.
And is that all he says about it? Or is there any more later?