I think your comment is unnecessarily hedged—do you think that you’d find much disagreement among LWers who interact with FHI/GMU-Econ over whether people there sometimes (vs never) fail to do level-one things?
I think I understand the connotation of your statement, but it’d be easier to understand if you strengthened “sometimes” to a stronger statement about academia’s inadequacy. Certainly the rationality community also sometimes fails to do even the obvious, level-one intelligent character things to enable them to achieve their goals—what is the actual claim that distinguishes the communities?
That’s a very good point, I was definitely unclear.
I think that the critical difference is that in epistemically health communities, when such a failure is pointed out, some effort is spent in identifying and fixing the problem, instead of pointedly ignoring it despite efforts to solve the problem, or spending time actively defending the inadequate status quo from even pareto-improving changes.
I think your comment is unnecessarily hedged—do you think that you’d find much disagreement among LWers who interact with FHI/GMU-Econ over whether people there sometimes (vs never) fail to do level-one things?
I think I understand the connotation of your statement, but it’d be easier to understand if you strengthened “sometimes” to a stronger statement about academia’s inadequacy. Certainly the rationality community also sometimes fails to do even the obvious, level-one intelligent character things to enable them to achieve their goals—what is the actual claim that distinguishes the communities?
That’s a very good point, I was definitely unclear.
I think that the critical difference is that in epistemically health communities, when such a failure is pointed out, some effort is spent in identifying and fixing the problem, instead of pointedly ignoring it despite efforts to solve the problem, or spending time actively defending the inadequate status quo from even pareto-improving changes.