Okay. I’m curious to understand why! Are you yourself materialist? Any recommended reading or viewing on the topic, specifically within the context of the rationalist movement?
I’d say that something-like-materialism feels like the most consistent and likely explanation. Sure we could assume that maybe, despite all appearances, there isn’t a real world of matter out there after all… but given that we do assume such a world for pretty much everything else we do, it would seem like an unjustifiably privileged hypothesis to assume anything else.
There’s a pretty strong materialist viewpoint in the original LW sequences, though it’s kinda scattered across a number of posts so I’m not sure which ones in particular I’d recommend (besides the one about privileged hypotheses).
Okay. I’m curious to understand why! Are you yourself materialist? Any recommended reading or viewing on the topic, specifically within the context of the rationalist movement?
I’d say that something-like-materialism feels like the most consistent and likely explanation. Sure we could assume that maybe, despite all appearances, there isn’t a real world of matter out there after all… but given that we do assume such a world for pretty much everything else we do, it would seem like an unjustifiably privileged hypothesis to assume anything else.
There’s a pretty strong materialist viewpoint in the original LW sequences, though it’s kinda scattered across a number of posts so I’m not sure which ones in particular I’d recommend (besides the one about privileged hypotheses).