Epistemic status: Babbling. I don’t have a good understanding of this, but it seems plausible.
Here is my understanding. Before science was a thing, people would derive ideas by theorizing (or worse, from the bible). It wasn’t very rigorous. They would kinda just believe things willy-nilly (I’m exaggerating).
Then science came along and was like, “No! Slow down! You can’t do that! You need to have sufficient evidence before you can justifiably believe something like that!” But as Eliezer explains, science is too slow. It judges things as pass-fail instead of updating incrementally. It wants to be very sure before it acknowledges something as “backed by science”.
I suspect that this attitude stems from reversing the stupidity that preceded science. And now that I think about it, a lot of ideas seem to stem from reversed stupidity. Perhaps we should be on the lookout for this more, and update our beliefs accordingly in the opposite direction.
Science as reversed stupidity
Epistemic status: Babbling. I don’t have a good understanding of this, but it seems plausible.
Here is my understanding. Before science was a thing, people would derive ideas by theorizing (or worse, from the bible). It wasn’t very rigorous. They would kinda just believe things willy-nilly (I’m exaggerating).
Then science came along and was like, “No! Slow down! You can’t do that! You need to have sufficient evidence before you can justifiably believe something like that!” But as Eliezer explains, science is too slow. It judges things as pass-fail instead of updating incrementally. It wants to be very sure before it acknowledges something as “backed by science”.
I suspect that this attitude stems from reversing the stupidity that preceded science. And now that I think about it, a lot of ideas seem to stem from reversed stupidity. Perhaps we should be on the lookout for this more, and update our beliefs accordingly in the opposite direction.