What do you mean “privileging a hypothesis”? The LW concept https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/privileging-the-hypothesis is about raising a hypothesis to consideration without enough to point to that hypothesis. I gave reasons for raising this hypothesis.
What does decoupling have to do with reductionism? Decoupling doesn’t mean “do reductionism”, it means decoupling factual questions from social / political tone and conflict. [Edit: I was partially wrong. The concept of “high/low-decouplers” described here https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8fnch2/high_decouplers_and_low_decouplers/ is sort of related to reductionism, though is far from the same thing (because what you’re decoupling can be a high-level claim, holistic in the sense of abstract, if not holistic in the sense of letting in all the context). The idea of decoupling norms as described in the post Ruby linked, https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7cAsBPGh98pGyrhz9/decoupling-vs-contextualising-norms , is as I said, though more precisely stated as being about implications in general.]
What do you mean “privileging a hypothesis”? The LW concept https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/privileging-the-hypothesis is about raising a hypothesis to consideration without enough to point to that hypothesis. I gave reasons for raising this hypothesis.
What does decoupling have to do with reductionism? Decoupling doesn’t mean “do reductionism”, it means decoupling factual questions from social / political tone and conflict. [Edit: I was partially wrong. The concept of “high/low-decouplers” described here https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8fnch2/high_decouplers_and_low_decouplers/ is sort of related to reductionism, though is far from the same thing (because what you’re decoupling can be a high-level claim, holistic in the sense of abstract, if not holistic in the sense of letting in all the context). The idea of decoupling norms as described in the post Ruby linked, https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7cAsBPGh98pGyrhz9/decoupling-vs-contextualising-norms , is as I said, though more precisely stated as being about implications in general.]