Takeoff does matter, in that I expect that this worldview is not very accurate/good if there’s discontinuous takeoff, but imputing the worldview I don’t think takeoff matters.
Minor question: could you clarify what you mean by “imputing the worldview” here? Do you mean something like, “operating within the worldview”? (I ask because this doesn’t seem to be a use of “impute” that I’m familiar with.)
Do you mean something like, “operating within the worldview”?
Basically yes. Longer version: “Suppose we were in scenario X. Normally, in such a scenario, I would discard this worldview, or put low weight on it, because reason Y. But suppose by fiat that I continue to use the worldview, with no other changes made to scenario X. Then …”
It’s meant to be analogous to imputing a value in a causal Bayes net, where you simply “suppose” that some event happened, and don’t update on anything causally upstream, but only reason forward about things that are causally downstream. (I seem to recall Scott Garrabrant writing a good post on this, but I can’t find it now. ETA: Found it, it’s here, but it doesn’t use the term “impute” at all. I’m now worried that I literally made up the term, and it doesn’t actually have any existing technical meaning.)
Minor question: could you clarify what you mean by “imputing the worldview” here? Do you mean something like, “operating within the worldview”? (I ask because this doesn’t seem to be a use of “impute” that I’m familiar with.)
Basically yes. Longer version: “Suppose we were in scenario X. Normally, in such a scenario, I would discard this worldview, or put low weight on it, because reason Y. But suppose by fiat that I continue to use the worldview, with no other changes made to scenario X. Then …”
It’s meant to be analogous to imputing a value in a causal Bayes net, where you simply “suppose” that some event happened, and don’t update on anything causally upstream, but only reason forward about things that are causally downstream. (I seem to recall Scott Garrabrant writing a good post on this, but I can’t find it now. ETA: Found it, it’s here, but it doesn’t use the term “impute” at all. I’m now worried that I literally made up the term, and it doesn’t actually have any existing technical meaning.)
Aha! I thought it might be borrowing language from some technical term I wasn’t familiar with. Thanks!